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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Ezekiel 22:29 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Das Volk des Landes verübt Erpressung und begeht Raub; und den Elenden und Dürftigen bedrücken sie, und den Fremdling übervorteilen sie widerrechtlich.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
El pueblo de la tierra usaba de opresión, y cometía robo, y al afligido y menesteroso hacían violencia, y al extranjero oprimían sin derecho.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
O povo da terra faz graves extorsões, e pratica roubos; fazem violência ao aflito e necessitado, e oprimem sem motivo ao estrangeiro.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Então, as pessoas da terra oprimiram pela extorsão e arracam por meio de roubo e maltratam o pobre e o necessitado; oprimem o estrangeiro sem justiça.
📖 Ezekiel 22:29 in Context
27Her princes in the midst 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 morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
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.
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 mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.
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