Ezequiel 22:29

29 Hasta la gente común oprime a los pobres, les roba a los necesitados y priva de justicia a los extranjeros.

Ezequiel 22:29 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression
The common people, the more powerful among them, such as were in greatest authority in cities and towns, in neighbourhoods and families, the richest among them; these oppressed the poor, and those that were under them, the servants of them, and tenants to them, and who were not able to defend themselves against them: the Septuagint and Syriac versions understand this of the prophets using the people of the land ill: and exercised robbery;
such who had not the power as others had, became thieves and robbers, went on the highway, and took men's money from them; broke up houses, and plundered them, and stole away their goods: and have vexed the poor and needy;
by their oppressions, rapines, and robberies, when they should rather have relieved them: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully;
or, "without right or judgment" ^F11; in a very unjust manner, contrary to the due course of law, against all equity and justice; which the Israelites were warned and ordered not to do, in many passages of Scripture; and for this reason, because they had been strangers in Egypt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (jpvm alb) "absque judicio", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, "non in judicio", Cocceius.

Ezequiel 22:29 In-Context

27 Tus líderes son como lobos que despedazan a sus víctimas. ¡En realidad destruyen vidas a cambio de dinero!

28 Y tus profetas los encubren dando falsas visiones y predicciones mentirosas. Dicen: ‘Mi mensaje proviene del Señor
Soberano’, cuando en realidad el Señor
no les ha dicho ni una sola palabra.

29 Hasta la gente común oprime a los pobres, les roba a los necesitados y priva de justicia a los extranjeros.

30 »”Busqué a alguien que pudiera reconstruir la muralla de justicia que resguarda al país. Busqué a alguien que se pusiera en la brecha de la muralla para que yo no tuviera que destruirlos, pero no encontré a nadie.

31 Por eso ahora derramaré mi furia sobre ellos y los consumiré con el fuego de mi enojo. Haré recaer sobre su cabeza todo el castigo por cada uno de sus pecados. ¡Yo, el Señor
Soberano, he hablado!”».