The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Treasury of Scripture people Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger... Ezekiel 18:12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols... Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment... Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey... Isaiah 59:3-7 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies... Jeremiah 5:26-28,31 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men... Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness... Amos 3:10 For they know not to do right, said the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Micah 2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house... Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces... James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries... oppression. or, deceit
oppressed Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger... Exodus 22:21 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him. Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not. wrongfully [heb]
without right
Context The Sins of Prophets, Priests, Princes
23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 24Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation. 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the middle thereof. 26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus said the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken. 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30And 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. 31Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed on their heads, said the Lord GOD. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.
Darby Bible Translation
The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.
King James Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
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