Ezekiel 22:30
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
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.
“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I sought
- God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.
- Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5; Jeremiah 5:1
- make
- Ezekiel 13:5; Genesis 18:23–32; Exodus 32:10–14; Psalm 106:23; Jeremiah 15:1