THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
They disrespect My sacred matters and desecrate My Sabbaths among you; in other words, they disregard My commandments and violate the day designated for rest through their unlawful actions. What could be more evil than this?
Ezekiel 22:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.
קָדָשַׁ֖י בָּזִ֑ית וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י חִלָּֽלְתְּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 23:38Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
- Ezek 23:39And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.
- Ezek 20:13But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.
- Ezek 22:26Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
- Ezek 20:21But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
- Ezek 20:24Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
- Amos 8:6That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?