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Ezekiel 22:29

WEB

29The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

KJV

29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

BSB

29The 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.

FBV

29The people of this country are extortioners and robbers. They mistreat the poor and those in need and exploit the foreigners, treating them totally unfairly.

Extra References

Ezekiel 22:7

7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. [+] Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Exodus 23:9

9“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:21

21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Psalms 94:6

6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Jeremiah 5:31

31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Isaiah 5:7

7For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Leviticus 19:33

33“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Isaiah 10:2

2to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Amos 3:10

10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Micah 3:3

3who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.