I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
As to the beginning of the verse there is no ambiguity, for God pronounces that the Jews would be miserable, because he would avert his face from them For in this was situated their happiness, that God, as he had promised, would regard their safety. As long, therefore, as God deigned to look upon them, their safety was certain, so that there was no fear of danger.
These survivors escape only to become fugitives and vagabonds, carrying guilty consciences that make them burden to themselves. Once bold as lions, they become timid as doves, mourning each for his own iniquity; sin will extract its sorrow from all who refuse to repent.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 7:16-22
Make a chain,.... To bind them; not the robbers, the Chaldeans, but the Jews; in order either to bring them to the bar to be tried for capital crimes hereafter mentioned, or to be led bound in chains into captivity; see Neh 3:10; for the land is full of bloody crimes; or, "judgment of bloods" (m); capital crimes, such as are deserving of death, particularly...