Ezekiel 7:21
Good News Translation
"I will let foreigners rob them," says the LORD, "and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.

New Revised Standard Version
I will hand it over to strangers as booty, to the wicked of the earth as plunder; they shall profane it.

Contemporary English Version
Wicked foreigners will rob and disgrace you.

New American Bible
I will hand them over as spoils to foreigners, as plunder to the wicked of the earth, so that they may defile them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And 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.

2 Kings 24:13 And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 25:9,13-16 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:18,19 And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he carried away to Babylon. . . .

Psalm 74:2-8 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt. . . .

Psalm 79:1 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

Jeremiah 52:13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Context
The Desolation of Israel
20And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an uncleanness to them. 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.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:13
And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

Psalm 74:2
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

Psalm 109:11
May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

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.

Jeremiah 52:13
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Ezekiel 31:12
And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.

Ezekiel 7:20
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