Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
The people{H5971} of the land{H776} have used oppression,{H6231} and exercised{H1497} robbery;{H1498} yea, they have vexed{H3238} the poor{H6041} and needy,{H34} and have oppressed{H6231} the sojourner{H1616} wrongfully.{H4941}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
The people{H5971} of the land{H776} have used oppression{H6231}{(H8804)}{H6233}, and exercised{H1497}{(H8804)} robbery{H1498}, and have vexed{H3238}{(H8689)} the poor{H6041} and needy{H34}: yea, they have oppressed{H6231}{(H8804)} the stranger{H1616} wrongfully{H4941}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
The people in the londe vseth wicked extorcio and robbery. They vexe the poore and nedy: and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.
Geneva Bible (1560)
The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Webster's Bible (1833)
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
World English Bible (2000)
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
Referenced Verses
- Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
- Exod 23:9 : 9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Exod 22:21 : 21 You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Amos 3:10 : 10 For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
- Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so 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; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
- Matt 25:43 : 43 I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
- Isa 10:2 : 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
- Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will 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 hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
- Jer 5:26-28 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich. 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do 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 you do in the end thereof?
- Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
- Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
- Lev 19:33 : 33 And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
- Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Ezek 22:7-82 verses81%
7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.
- Isa 10:1-22 verses77%
1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
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3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Prov 22:22-232 verses76%
22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
23 For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.
- Ezek 22:12-132 verses76%
12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.
13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
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12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
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4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,
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2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;
- Isa 3:14-152 verses75%
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
- Ezek 22:30-312 verses74%
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.
- Jer 5:28-292 verses74%
28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
- Amos 5:11-122 verses74%
11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;
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10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
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21 You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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9 Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.
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4 They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- Ezek 22:27-282 verses72%
27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
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9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.
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9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.
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16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
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7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
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25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst.
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7 The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.
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7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
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8 Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.
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9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
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14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:
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17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
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22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.
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7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
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9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled; I will do unto them according to their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
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29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
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7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.