I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
Parallel translations
- KJV My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
- BSB I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
- NKJV I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
- NASB I will also turn My face away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.
- NLT I will turn my eyes from them as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Ps 74:10–11How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Ps 35:22You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
- Ps 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
- Ps 74:18–23Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
- Ezek 39:23–24The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
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