I will turn my eyes from them as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
- 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.
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Quick answer
God will turn His face away, allowing robbers to enter and profane His treasured place. Even the temple is given over to defilement.
Overview
The Lord announces He will avert His face and let plunderers desecrate His secret place, likely the sanctuary. The withdrawal of God's protective presence opens the holy place to profanation. This grievous loss shows that persistent sin can forfeit even the privilege of God's dwelling, making all the more precious the new and lasting access to God secured through Christ.
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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