Ezekiel 7:20

“For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares Yahweh, “they have set their detestable things in the house, which is called by My name, to defile it.

The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh As in the day of an appointed time.

How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the head of every street.

‘So as I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity, and I will not spare.

And He said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

“When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

“Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

The Temple Profaned