Ezekiel 22:29

29 Le peuple du pays use de violence; ils commettent des rapines, et font tort à l'affligé et au pauvre, et contrairement à toute justice ils oppriment l'étranger.

Ezekiel 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.

Ezekiel 22:29 In-Context

27 Ses chefs dans son sein sont pareils à des loups qui dévorent leur proie en répandant le sang, en perdant les âmes pour commettre des rapines.

28 Ses prophètes les enduisent de mortier; ils ont des visions trompeuses, et prononcent des oracles menteurs en disant: "Ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel", quand l'Éternel n'a point parlé.

29 Le peuple du pays use de violence; ils commettent des rapines, et font tort à l'affligé et au pauvre, et contrairement à toute justice ils oppriment l'étranger.

30 Je cherche au milieu d'eux quelqu'un qui relève la muraille, qui se tienne sur la brèche devant ma face en faveur du pays, afin que je ne le détruise pas; mais je ne trouve personne.

31 C'est pourquoi je répandrai sur eux ma fureur, et je les consumerai par le feu de ma colère; je ferai retomber leur conduite sur leurs têtes, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel.