Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers within her have been like wolves, rending prey,- In shedding blood In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

In Context

26Her priests have done violence to my law And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,- And from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst.

28And her prophets have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood And divining for them lies, Saying, Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh, hath not spoken.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:23A bribe out of his bosom, doth a lawless man take, to pervert the ways of justice.

Lamentations 4:13[It is] for the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests,—who have been pouring out, in her midst, the blood of the righteous!

Ezekiel 19:3And she reared up one of her whelps— A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey. Men, he devoured.

Ezekiel 22:13Lo! therefore I have smitten my hand, At thine unjust gain which thou hast made— And over thy bloodshed, which they have caused in thy midst.

Ezekiel 45:9Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Let it more than suffice you O princes of Israel, Violence and spoil, remove ye And justice and righteousness, execute,— Lift off your acts of expulsion from upon my people, Urgeth My Lord Yahweh.

Micah 3:2Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,—tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:24-31

Charge against Prophets and Priests. ( b. c. 591.) 23 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst 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 midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things:… Read the whole commentary →

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