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Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/22.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/22.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/22.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/22.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst; they have oppressed the orphan and the widow among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/22.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/22.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They have treated father and mother with contempt within you. The sojourner they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have mistreated in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/22.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/22.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/22.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />None of you honor your parents, and you cheat foreigners, orphans, and widows. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/22.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee, have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/22.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/22.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/22.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They've treated mothers and fathers among you with contempt. They've oppressed the foreigner among you. They've maltreated the orphan and the widow among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/22.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/22.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/22.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/22.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/22.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />They have made light of father and mother in you, "" They dealt oppressively to a sojourner in your midst, "" They oppressed fatherless and widow in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/22.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppressed the orphan and the widow in thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/22.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/22.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Within you, father and mother are dishonored; they extort the resident alien in your midst; within you, they oppress orphans and widows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/22.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />In you have they cursed father and mother; in the midst of you have they oppressed the proselytes; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/22.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />They have cursed father and mother among you, and him who is converted to me they have rejected within you, and the orphans and the widows they defrauded among you<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/22.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/22.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=6058" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/22.htm">The Sins of Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’āḇ (N-ms) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">Father</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: wā·’êm (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">and mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/7043.htm" title="7043: hê·qal·lū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To be slight, swift or trifling. A primitive root; to be light, literally Or figuratively.">are treated with contempt.</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">Within your walls</a> <a href="/hebrew/1616.htm" title="1616: lag·gêr (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- A sojourner. Or geyr; from guwr; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner.">the foreign resident</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">is exploited,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6233.htm" title="6233: ḇa·‘ō·šeq (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Oppression, extortion. From ashaq; injury, fraud, distress, unjust gain."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8432.htm" title="8432: bə·ṯō·w·ḵêḵ (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 2fs) -- Midst. From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. the centre."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3490.htm" title="3490: yā·ṯō·wm (N-ms) -- An orphan. From an unused root meaning to be lonely; a bereaved person.">the fatherless</a> <a href="/hebrew/490.htm" title="490: wə·’al·mā·nāh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- A widow. Fem of 'alman; a widow; also a desolate place.">and the widow</a> <a href="/hebrew/3238.htm" title="3238: hō·w·nū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To oppress, maltreat, perhaps suppress. A primitive root; to rage or be violent: by implication, to suppress, to maltreat.">are oppressed.</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- "></a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-12.htm">Exodus 20:12</a></span><br />Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/27-16.htm">Deuteronomy 27:16</a></span><br />‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/19-32.htm">Leviticus 19:32</a></span><br />You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-23.htm">Isaiah 1:23</a></span><br />Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm">Jeremiah 22:3</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm">Malachi 3:5</a></span><br />“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-4.htm">Matthew 15:4-6</a></span><br />For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ / But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ / he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-10.htm">Mark 7:10-13</a></span><br />For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ / But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), / he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/5-3.htm">1 Timothy 5:3-4</a></span><br />Honor the widows who are truly widows. / But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-27.htm">James 1:27</a></span><br />Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-1.htm">Isaiah 10:1-2</a></span><br />Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-10.htm">Zechariah 7:10</a></span><br />Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/23-22.htm">Proverbs 23:22</a></span><br />Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/28-24.htm">Proverbs 28:24</a></span><br />He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-14.htm">Matthew 23:14</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.</p><p class="hdg">set</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/21-17.htm">Exodus 21:17</a></b></br> And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/20-9.htm">Leviticus 20:9</a></b></br> For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood <i>shall be</i> upon him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/27-16.htm">Deuteronomy 27:16</a></b></br> Cursed <i>be</i> he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.</p><p class="hdg">dealt</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Ezekiel 22:29</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/18-12.htm">Ezekiel 18:12</a></b></br> Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/22-21.htm">Exodus 22:21,22</a></b></br> Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt… </p><p class="hdg">oppression.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-26.htm">Child</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm">Contempt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-18.htm">Cruel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-44.htm">Dealt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-18.htm">Extortion</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm">Fatherless</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm">Light</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-3.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-10.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-18.htm">Oppressed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-18.htm">Oppression</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-24.htm">Respect</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-8.htm">Sojourner</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-7.htm">Stranger</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Suffers</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm">Treated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-5.htm">Vexed</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-1.htm">Widow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Within</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-27.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-16.htm">Wronged</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-12.htm">You</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/hosea/9-11.htm">Child</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">Contempt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-4.htm">Cruel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm">Dealt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm">Extortion</a> <a href="/hosea/14-3.htm">Fatherless</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-7.htm">Light</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-9.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-2.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Oppressed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm">Oppression</a> <a href="/daniel/9-14.htm">Respect</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Sojourner</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Stranger</a> <a href="/matthew/11-12.htm">Suffers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-32.htm">Treated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Vexed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-22.htm">Widow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-25.htm">Within</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-10.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm">Wronged</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">You</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 22</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-1.htm">A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-17.htm">God will burn them as dross in his furnace</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-23.htm">The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and the people</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, family was the cornerstone of society, and respect for parents was foundational. Disrespecting parents was not only a personal failing but a societal one, reflecting a broader moral decay. This contempt can be seen as a rejection of God's ordained authority structure, which is echoed in the New Testament where Paul warns of disobedience to parents as a sign of societal decline (<a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">2 Timothy 3:2</a>). The treatment of parents in this manner indicates a breakdown in familial relationships, which were crucial for maintaining social order and religious instruction.<p><b>Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited,</b><br>The exploitation of foreigners contradicts the Mosaic Law, which commanded Israel to treat the foreigner with kindness and justice (<a href="/leviticus/19-33.htm">Leviticus 19:33-34</a>). Foreign residents, or "sojourners," were often vulnerable due to their lack of familial and social networks. This exploitation reflects a failure to uphold God's justice and mercy, which were central to Israel's covenant identity. The prophets frequently condemned such injustices, emphasizing that true worship of God includes ethical treatment of others (<a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm">Isaiah 1:17</a>). This exploitation is a symptom of a society that has turned away from God's commands, leading to social and spiritual corruption.<p><b>the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.</b><br>The oppression of the fatherless and widows is a grave sin in biblical teaching, as these groups were particularly vulnerable and dependent on community support. The Law repeatedly emphasizes care for orphans and widows (<a href="/deuteronomy/10-18.htm">Deuteronomy 10:18</a>, <a href="/psalms/68-5.htm">Psalm 68:5</a>), and their mistreatment is a sign of a society's moral failure. <a href="/james/1-27.htm">James 1:27</a> reiterates this concern in the New Testament, defining pure religion as caring for orphans and widows. The oppression of these groups in Ezekiel's time indicates a departure from God's covenantal requirements and a lack of compassion, which are central to God's character. This failure to protect the vulnerable is a recurring theme in prophetic literature, often used to call Israel back to faithfulness and justice.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet during the Babylonian exile, tasked with delivering God's messages of judgment and hope to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation addressed in this passage, specifically the people of Jerusalem, who are being rebuked for their sins.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/father_and_mother.htm">Father and Mother</a></b><br>Representing the family unit, which is being disrespected and dishonored by the people.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/f/foreigner.htm">Foreigner</a></b><br>Non-Israelites living among the Israelites, who are being oppressed contrary to God's laws of hospitality and justice.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/fatherless_and_widow.htm">Fatherless and Widow</a></b><br>Vulnerable members of society who are being wronged, highlighting the community's failure to uphold justice and compassion.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/h/honor_and_respect_for_parents.htm">Honor and Respect for Parents</a></b><br>The importance of maintaining respect and honor within the family as a reflection of our relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/j/justice_for_the_foreigner.htm">Justice for the Foreigner</a></b><br>God's heart for justice extends to all people, including foreigners, and we are called to reflect His love and fairness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/care_for_the_vulnerable.htm">Care for the Vulnerable</a></b><br>True religion involves caring for those who cannot care for themselves, such as orphans and widows, demonstrating God's compassion.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_responsibility.htm">Community Responsibility</a></b><br>The passage highlights the collective responsibility of a community to uphold God's standards of justice and righteousness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>Recognizing areas where we fall short and seeking God's forgiveness and guidance to restore right relationships.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_22.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 22</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_cite_jerusalem's_violence.htm">In Ezekiel 22:2–5, why does God single out Jerusalem’s bloodshed without clear archaeological evidence of such extensive violence? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_proverbs_22_7_lack_solutions.htm">Proverbs 22:7: Why does the text point out the rule of the rich over the poor but offer no direct solution to systemic economic oppression?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_ezekiel_7_3_imply_collective_punishment.htm">Ezekiel 7:3 speaks of God punishing 'according to your ways'--why does this seem to punish everyone collectively, conflicting with other scriptures emphasizing individual accountability?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_lending.htm">What are the Bible's teachings on lending money?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/22.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">By father and mother.</span>--Filial respect was one of the most frequently enjoined precepts of the law (see <a href="/leviticus/19-32.htm" title="You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.">Leviticus 19:32</a>; <a href="/leviticus/20-9.htm" title="For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.">Leviticus 20:9</a>, &c.). So the other sins mentioned in this and the following verses are transgressions of special Divine commands. "Dealt by oppression" is "dealt oppressively" (see <a href="/leviticus/19-10.htm" title="And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.">Leviticus 19:10</a>; <a href="/exodus/22-21.htm" title="You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.">Exodus 22:21</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/24-14.htm" title="You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:">Deuteronomy 24:14</a>, &c.); for "the father less and widow" (<a href="/context/exodus/22-22.htm" title="You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.">Exodus 22:22-24</a>, &c.). The despising of holy things and the profanation of the sabbaths were the constant subject of the warnings of the law; tale-bearers are forbidden in <a href="/leviticus/19-16.htm" title="You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor; I am the LORD.">Leviticus 19:16</a>; the "eating upon the mountains" (which means joining in the idol sacrifices) is often reproved by this and the other prophets; and the sins of lewdness enumerated are all specifically forbidden in Leviticus 18, 20, as well as elsewhere; while the various sins arising from covetousness, mentioned in <a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm" title="In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.">Ezekiel 22:12</a>, had been constantly denounced both by the law and in the warnings of the prophets. The expression "hast forgotten me" is at once the root of all these sins, and in itself the climax of all. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/22.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - We pass to sins of another kind. The fifth commandment was trampled underfoot as well as the sixth, and the blessing of continued national existence (<a href="/exodus/20-12.htm">Exodus 20:12</a>) was thereby forfeited. The widow and the orphan and the stranger (we note in that last word the width of Ezekiel's sympathies) were oppressed (compare the same grouping in <a href="/deuteronomy/27-16.htm">Deuteronomy 27:16, 19</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Father</span><br /><span class="heb">אָ֤ב</span> <span class="translit">(’āḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> </span><span class="str2">Father</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and mother</span><br /><span class="heb">וָאֵם֙</span> <span class="translit">(wā·’êm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> </span><span class="str2">A mother, )</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are treated with contempt.</span><br /><span class="heb">הֵקַ֣לּוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hê·qal·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7043.htm">Strong's 7043: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be slight, swift or trifling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Within your walls</span><br /><span class="heb">בָ֔ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(ḇāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">the foreign resident</span><br /><span class="heb">לַגֵּ֛ר</span> <span class="translit">(lag·gêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1616.htm">Strong's 1616: </a> </span><span class="str2">A guest, a foreigner</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is exploited,</span><br /><span class="heb">עָשׂ֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·śū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the fatherless</span><br /><span class="heb">יָת֥וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ṯō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3490.htm">Strong's 3490: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bereaved person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the widow</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאַלְמָנָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’al·mā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_490.htm">Strong's 490: </a> </span><span class="str2">A widow, a desolate place</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are oppressed.</span><br /><span class="heb">ה֥וֹנוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hō·w·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3238.htm">Strong's 3238: </a> </span><span class="str2">To rage, be violent, to suppress, to maltreat</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Ezekiel 22:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/22-7.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light (Ezek. 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