Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
- BSB You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NKJV You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NASB You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NLT You despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
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Quick answer
The people despise God's holy things and profane His Sabbaths. They show contempt for what God has set apart as sacred.
Overview
Beyond social injustice, Jerusalem dishonors God directly by scorning sacred worship and desecrating the Sabbath. The Sabbath was a sign of covenant relationship with the Lord (Ezek. 20:12), so profaning it betrays that covenant. True faith honors both God's holiness and one's neighbor; Jerusalem failed at both.
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- Ezek 23:38–39Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
- Ezek 20:13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Ezek 22:26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Ezek 20:21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezek 20:24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
- Mal 1:12But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
- Lev 19:30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
- Mal 1:6–8A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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