Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.
New American Standard Bible
The people of the land have practiced
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery.
International Standard Version
The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner.
A Conservative Version
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
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.
Amplified
The people of the land have practiced oppression and extortion and have committed robbery; they have wronged the poor and needy and they have oppressed the stranger without justice.
Bible in Basic English
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Darby Translation
The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.
Julia Smith Translation
The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment
King James 2000
The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery}, and they mistreated [the] needy and [the] poor, and they oppressed the alien {without} justice.
Modern King James verseion
The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.
NET Bible
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice.
New Heart English Bible
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
The Emphasized Bible
The people of the land have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,- Even the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And the sojourner have they oppressed without justice.
Webster
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
World English Bible
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Aliens » To be treated with justice
Jerusalem » Catalogue of abominations in
The poor » Punishment for » Oppressing
Strangers » Instances of oppression of
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 22:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Highlighting The Sins And The Judgments Of Israel
28 As for thy Prophets, they daub with untempered clay, they see vanities, and prophesy lies unto thee, saying, 'The LORD God sayeth so,' where as the LORD hath not spoken. 29 The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right. 30 And I sought in the land for a man, that would make up the hedge, and set himself in the gap before me in the lands behalf, that I should not utterly destroy it: but I could find none.
Cross References
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
Exodus 23:9
Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of a stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.
Isaiah 5:7
As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.
Exodus 22:21
Vex not a stranger, neither oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Amos 3:10
sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.'
Leviticus 19:33
If a stranger sojourn by thee in your land, see that ye vex him not:
Psalm 94:6
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
Isaiah 10:2
wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.
Isaiah 59:3-7
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:26-28
For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.
Jeremiah 5:31
The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?
Jeremiah 6:13
"For from the least unto the most, they hang all upon covetousness: and from the prophet unto the priest, they go all about with falsity and lies.
Ezekiel 18:12
he grieveth the poor and needy; he robbeth and spoileth; he giveth not the debtor his pledge again; he lifteth up his eyes unto Idols, and meddle with abominable things;
Micah 2:2
When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage.
Micah 3:3
ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot.
Matthew 25:43
I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.'
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.