Hesekiel 22:29

29 Das Volk im Lande übt Gewalt; sie rauben getrost und schinden die Armen und Elenden und tun den Fremdlingen Gewalt und Unrecht.

Hesekiel 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.

Hesekiel 22:29 In-Context

27 Ihre Fürsten sind darin wie die reißenden Wölfe, Blut zu vergießen und Seelen umzubringen um ihres Geizes willen.

28 Und ihre Propheten tünchen ihnen mit losem Kalk, predigen loses Gerede und weissagen ihnen Lügen und sagen: "So spricht der HERR HERR", so es doch der HERR nicht geredet hat.

29 Das Volk im Lande übt Gewalt; sie rauben getrost und schinden die Armen und Elenden und tun den Fremdlingen Gewalt und Unrecht.

30 Ich suchte unter ihnen, ob jemand sich zur Mauer machte und wider den Riß stünde vor mir für das Land, daß ich's nicht verderbte; aber ich fand keinen.

31 Darum schüttete ich meinen Zorn über sie, und mit dem Feuer meines Grimmes machte ich ihnen ein Ende und gab ihnen also ihren Verdienst auf ihren Kopf, spricht der HERR HERR.