Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I have profaned -The princes of the sanctuary, that is, the priests, were by their office regarded as sacred, or set apart to the service of God. To depose them from that office, to subject them to punishment, and to send them into captivity, was, therefore, regarded as profaning them. They were stripped of their office, and robes, and honors, and reduced to the same condition, and compelled to meet with the same treatment, as the common people. The sense is, that he had made them common (for so the wordחללchâlalis used inExodus 31:14;Exodus 19:22;Leviticus 19:8;Leviticus 21:9;Malachi 1:12;Malachi 2:2); he did not regard their office; he used them all alike.