My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

They shall pollute my place - just retribution for the Jews' pollution of the temple.

For the robbers shall enter into it - "Robbers shall enter and defile" the holy of holies, the place of God's manifested presence, entrance into which was denied even to the Levites and priests, and was permitted to the high priest only once a year on the great day of atonement.

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