Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Selfishness has to come out; that is what defiles you; that is what you have to be cleansed from.

Would not the people start up in their seats, by a simultaneous impulse, and tear him down out of the pulpit which he defiled?

And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.