Ezekiel 22:29 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Ezekiel 22:29 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Ezekiel 22:29 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Ezekiel 22:29 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Ezekiel 22:29 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
Ezekiel 22:29 — World English Bible
Ezekiel 22:29 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Ezekiel 22:29 — American Standard Version
Ezekiel 22:29 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Ezekiel 22:29 — Young's Literal Translation
Ezekiel 22:29 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully. ”
Ezekiel 22:29 — Darby Translation
Ezekiel 22:29 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.”
Ezekiel 22:29 — Geneva Bible
Ezekiel 22:29 in Context — Ezekiel 22
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And 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.
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.
30 And 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.
31 Therefore 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.
What Does Ezekiel 22:29 Mean?
Ezekiel 22:29 is a verse from the Book of Ezekiel, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Ezekiel chapter 22. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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