Ezekiel 22:27 “Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding…”

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

World English Bible

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

American Standard Version

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Geneva Bible 1599

Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre.

Darby Translation

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Young's Literal Translation

Its princes in its midst [are] as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

Bible in Basic English

Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

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Cross references

“princes”

Ezekiel 22:6 Isaiah 1:23 Ezekiel 19:3–6 Ezekiel 45:9 Hosea 7:1–7 Micah 3:9–11

Ezekiel 22:6 · BSB

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Isaiah 1:23 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 19:3–6 · BSB

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 45:9 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

Hosea 7:1–7 · BSB

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

Micah 3:9–11 · BSB

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

“to get”

Ezekiel 22:13 Matthew 21:13 James 5:1–4

Ezekiel 22:13 · BSB

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Matthew 21:13 · BSB

And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”

James 5:1–4 · BSB

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

Also

Ezekiel 22:25

Ezekiel 22:25 · BSB

The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

28Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

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