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Ezekiel 22:29

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.

KJV

Populi terræ calumniabantur calumniam, et rapiebant violenter : egenum et pauperem affligebant, et advenam opprimebant calumnia absque judicio.

Vulgate

λαὸν τῆς γῆς ἐκπιεζοῦντες ἀδικίᾳ καὶ διαρπάζοντες ἁρπάγματα, πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα καταδυναστεύοντες, καὶ πρὸς τὸν προσήλυτον οὐκ ἀναστρεφόμενοι μετὰ κρίματος.

LXX

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.

ASV

עַ֤ם הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ עָ֣שְׁקוּ עֹ֔שֶׁק וְ/גָזְל֖וּ גָּזֵ֑ל וְ/עָנִ֤י וְ/אֶבְיוֹן֙ הוֹנ֔וּ וְ/אֶת הַ/גֵּ֥ר עָשְׁק֖וּ בְּ/לֹ֥א מִשְׁפָּֽט

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶבְי֑וֹן
'byvn
adjective · 59×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
גֵּ֖ר
gr
noun · 92×
גָּזֵ֑ל
gzl
noun · 3×
הוֹנָ֔ה
hvnh
verb · 19×
י
y
noun · 422×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יִּגְזֹ֤ל
ygzl
verb · 29×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 34×
עָנִ֣י
'ny
adjective · 77×
עֹ֣שֶׁק
'shq
noun · 14×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:10 — Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Amos 3:10 — For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
  • Amos 4:1 — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
  • Exod 22:21 — Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 23:9 — Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 22:7 — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Hos 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
  • Isa 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, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
  • Isa 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, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Isa 59:4 — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Jer 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Job 20:19 — Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
  • Job 24:4 — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
  • Lev 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
  • Lev 19:33 — And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
  • Lev 19:33 — And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
  • Prov 22:22 — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
  • Prov 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
  • Ps 94:6 — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
  • Zech 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.