Ezekiel 7:22
Good News Translation
I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.

New Revised Standard Version
I will avert my face from them, so that they may profane my treasured place; the violent shall enter it, they shall profane it.

Contemporary English Version
They will break into my temple and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.

New American Bible
I will turn my face away from them. My treasure will be defiled; the violent will enter and defile it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

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Psalm 10:11 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 35:22 Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.

Psalm 74:10,11,18-23 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? . . .

Jeremiah 18:17 As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

robbers.

Context
The Desolation of Israel
21And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it. 22And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.23Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:17
As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place : and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents.

Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.

Ezekiel 39:23
And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face from them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they fell all by the sword.

Ezekiel 39:24
I have dealt with them according to their uncleanness, and wickedness, and hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 7:21
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