Ezekiel 22:7

World English Bible (2000)

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. 22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Jer 7:6 : 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 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.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; 23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

    9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

    10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

    11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

    12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

    13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 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.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Job 22:9
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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Exod 22:22-24
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    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

    23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

    24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Jer 22:3
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    3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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    6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Deut 27:19
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    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • Isa 9:17
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    17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 44:9
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    9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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    11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Mic 2:9
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    9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.

  • Job 24:3
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    3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Jer 49:11
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    11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

  • Ezek 44:7
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    7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

  • Isa 3:5
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    5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • Job 24:9
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    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Jer 7:17
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    17 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Mal 3:5
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    5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Isa 3:14
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  • Isa 1:17
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    17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."

  • Jer 19:4
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    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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    9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Mal 2:9
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    9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • Deut 24:20
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    20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Deut 10:18
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    18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

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    37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

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    21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?

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    7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.