Ezekiel 22:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.

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  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 `O Lord, to us `is' the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment? 2 Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, 3 And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread `them' out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. 10 Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
  • Zech 3:3 : 3 And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to wood, `My father `art' thou!' And to a stone, `Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, `Arise Thou, and save us.'
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
  • Jer 32:32 : 32 Because of all the evil of the sons of Israel, and of the sons of Judah that they have done, so as to provoke Me -- they, their kings, their heads, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Neh 9:34 : 34 and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 22:7-13
    7 verses
    79%

    7Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

    8My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

    9Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

    10The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.

    11And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.

    12A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

    13And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.

  • Ezek 22:27
    78%

    27Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

  • Ezek 21:25
    75%

    25And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!

  • Isa 1:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.

    23Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

  • Lam 5:12
    73%

    12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands.

    5The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee, O defiled of name -- abounding in trouble.

  • Mic 3:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

    10Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Jer 22:17
    73%

    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

  • Hos 5:10
    72%

    10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

  • Ezek 19:1
    72%

    1And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

    4Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

  • Lam 4:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

    14They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without `any' being able to touch their clothing,

  • Jer 2:26
    71%

    26As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,

  • Hos 4:2
    71%

    2Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Jer 6:13
    71%

    13For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,

  • Obad 1:11
    71%

    11In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou `art' as one of them!

  • Josh 22:14
    71%

    14and ten princes with him, one prince, one prince, for a house of a father, for all the tribes of Israel, and each of them a head of a house of their fathers, for the thousands of Israel.

  • Isa 3:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

    6When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.'

  • Hab 2:8
    70%

    8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.

  • Ezek 11:6
    70%

    6Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.

  • Ps 79:3
    70%

    3They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful `is' thy soul.

  • Jer 2:34
    70%

    34Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29The 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.

  • Hos 6:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Gilead `is' a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

    9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

  • Hos 5:2
    69%

    2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I `am' a fetter to them all.

  • Ezek 35:5
    69%

    5Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

  • Mic 3:1
    69%

    1And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

  • Mic 6:12
    69%

    12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

  • Hos 7:3
    69%

    3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

  • Ezek 45:9
    69%

    9`Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • Ezek 7:27
    69%

    27The king doth become a mourner, And a prince putteth on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, From their own way I deal with them, And with their own judgments I judge them, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah!'

  • Isa 22:3
    69%

    3All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.

  • 2 Sam 16:8
    69%

    8Jehovah hath turned back on thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and Jehovah doth give the kingdom in to the hand of Absalom thy son; and lo, thou `art' in thine evil, for a man of blood thou `art'.'

  • Isa 43:28
    69%

    28And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!

  • Hab 2:17
    69%

    17For violence `to' Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.