Ezekiel 22:16

take thine inheritance According to the points: and thou shalt be profaned in (through) thyself. The idea that Jehovah "profanes" his people by casting them out of their land is not uncommon, Isaiah 43:28; Isaiah 47:6, cf. Ezekiel 24:21 (Ezekiel 28:16). It is doubtful if it be anywhere said that this casting out of the people is a profanation of them "in the sight of the heathen." On the other hand that phrase is often used when Jehovah himself, or his name, is spoken of as being profaned, ch. Ezekiel 20:9; Ezekiel 20:14; Ezekiel 20:22. Particularly it is said that Israel's dispersion among the nations profaned Jehovah's name, ch. Ezekiel 36:20-23, and in Ezekiel 39:7 Jehovah says, I will not pollute (let be polluted) my name any more (by the humiliation of his people). A slight change of reading gives: and I will beprofaned in thee in the sight.… The whole passage speaks of the chastisement of Israel, not of the purging away their uncleanness (Ezekiel 22:15), which is mentioned incidentally (cf. Ezekiel 22:22). This chastisement is dispersion among the nations, by which Jehovah is profaned and by which Israel learns to know that he who disperses them is the Lord. Corn. suggests: by which (uncleanness) I have been profaned in thee. Does the idea appear in the prophet that Jehovah was profaned in the eyes of the nations by Israel's idolatries?