Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary
Holy princes
“Then I profaned holy princes, and gave up Jacob to the ban, and Israel to revilings.
” “Holy princes” are the hierarchs (1Ch_24:5), the highest spiritual authorities in distinction from the secular. Their profanation consisted in their being ruthlessly dragged into a foreign land, where their official work ceased of necessity. So the heads of religion fared, and the whole nation, bearing the honourable names of Jacob and Israel, fell victim to the cursing and revilings of heathen nations. (F. Delitzsch, D. D.)
