🔥WEB · Ezekiel 22:8

What does Ezekiel 22:8 mean?

"You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths."

— Ezekiel 22:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

5

Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

6

“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

7

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

8

You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

9

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

10

In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

11

One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

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