profaned the princes - (Psa 89:39; Lam 2:2, Lam 2:6, Lam 2:7). I have esteemed, or treated, them as persons not sacred. I have left them to suffer the same treatment as the common people, stripped of their holy office and in captivity.
princes of the sanctuary - “governors of” it (1Ch 24:5); directing its holy services; priests.
curse - Hebrew, cherim, a “solemn anathema,” or “excommunication.”