Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
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.
Note oppression: or, deceit
Note wrongfully: Heb. without right
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- people
- Ezekiel 22:7; Ezekiel 18:12; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 59:3–7; Jeremiah 5:26–28, 31; Jeremiah 6:13; Amos 3:10; Micah 2:2; Micah 3:3; James 5:4
- oppression
- or, deceit. oppressed.
- Ezekiel 22:7; Ezekiel 22:7; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33; Psalm 94:6; Matthew 25:43