Ezekiel 22:27 Cross References

Ezekiel 22:27

27: Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."

"I wanted to heal Israel, but its sins were far too great. Samaria is filled with liars, thieves, and bandits!
Its people don't realize I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them; I see them all!
The people make the king glad with their wickedness. The princes laugh about the people's many lies.
They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot even while the baker is still kneading the dough.
"On royal holidays, the princes get drunk. The king makes a fool of himself and drinks with those who are making fun of him.

And yet, you insult the poor man! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
Aren't they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name you bear?

She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to catch and devour prey, and he became a man-eater.
Then the nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.
`When the mother lion saw that all her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong lion.
He prowled among the other lions and became a leader among them. He learned to catch and devour prey, and he, too, became a man-eater.

Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.

Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD himself will be my light.

For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop all your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land! Stop expelling them from their homes!

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

He said, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"

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