Ezekiel 22:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַ֤ם הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ עָ֣שְׁקוּ עֹ֔שֶׁק וְגָזְל֖וּ גָּזֵ֑ל וְעָנִ֤י וְאֶבְיוֹן֙ הוֹנ֔וּ וְאֶת־הַגֵּ֥ר עָשְׁק֖וּ בְּלֹ֥א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

Transliteration

ʿAm the ʾāreṣ ʿāšəqû ʿōšeq and ḡāzəlû gāzēl; and the ʿānî and ʾeḇyôn they have hônû, and ʾeṯ-the gēr they ʿāšəqû without mišpāṭ

Grammar Details

*ʿam*: masculine singular noun - 'people'
*ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - 'the land'
*ʿāšəqû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - 'they oppressed'
*ʿōšeq*: masculine singular noun - 'oppression'
*ḡāzəlû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - 'they robbed'
*gāzēl*: masculine singular noun - 'robbery'
*ʿānî*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - 'the poor'
*ʾeḇyôn*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - 'the needy'
*hônû*: hiphil perfect, 3rd plural - 'they wronged'
*ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
*gēr*: masculine singular noun with definite article - 'the sojourner'
*mišpāṭ*: masculine singular noun - 'judgment/justice'

Word Meanings

*ʿam* *ʾāreṣ*: people of the land/common people
*ʿāšəqû* *ʿōšeq*: oppressed with oppression (idiom for severe oppression)
*ḡāzəlû* *gāzēl*: robbed with robbery (idiom for severe robbery)
*hônû*: wronged/oppressed/defrauded
*gēr*: sojourner/alien/foreigner
*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/legal right

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Exod 23:9 : 9 And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exod 22:21 : 21 And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Amos 3:10 : 10 For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Mic 3:3 : 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Matt 25:43 : 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Isa 10:2 : 2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jer 5:26-28 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. 28 They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jer 5:31 : 31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Ezek 18:12 : 12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Lev 19:33 : 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

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7In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
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3Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Prov 22:22-23
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22Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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12In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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12hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
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4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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Jer 7:6
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6if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
Isa 3:14-15
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14Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
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6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
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Deut 27:19
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Job 20:19
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19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Zech 7:10
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Isa 3:5
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Ezek 18:16
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Ezek 18:7
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Ezek 22:25
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Mic 2:8
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Mic 3:9
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Deut 24:14
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Ezek 13:22
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Ezek 7:27
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