Ezekiel 45:9 “For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Ceas…”

Ezekiel 45:9

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.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

World English Bible

“‘The Lord GOD says: “Enough, you princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord GOD.

American Standard Version

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus saith the Lord God, Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: leaue off crueltie and oppression, and execute iudgment and iustice: take away your exactions from my people, sayth the Lord God.

Darby Translation

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel! Put away violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice; take off your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

'Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you — princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“Let it”

Ezekiel 44:6 1 Peter 4:3

Ezekiel 44:6 · BSB

Tell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.

1 Peter 4:3 · BSB

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

“remove”

Zechariah 8:16 Isaiah 1:17 Jeremiah 22:3 Psalm 82:2–5 Luke 3:14 Nehemiah 5:10

Zechariah 8:16 · BSB

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

Isaiah 1:17 · BSB

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Jeremiah 22:3 · BSB

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…

Psalm 82:2–5 · BSB

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Luke 3:14 · BSB

Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”

Nehemiah 5:10 · BSB

I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

“execute”

Ezekiel 43:14–16

Ezekiel 43:14–16 · BSB

The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

“take away”

Nehemiah 5:1–13 1 Corinthians 6:7 1 Corinthians 6:8

Nehemiah 5:1–13 · BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

1 Corinthians 6:7 · BSB

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

1 Corinthians 6:8 · BSB

Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

“exactions”

Job 20:19 Job 22:9 Job 24:2–12 Micah 2:9 Micah 2:1 Micah 2:2

Job 20:19 · BSB

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Job 22:9 · BSB

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 24:2–12 · BSB

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Micah 2:9 · BSB

You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

Micah 2:1 · BSB

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

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

In context

8This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

10You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

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