Ezekiel 22:29
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עֹשֶׁק
ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
גָּזַל
gâzal
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
יָנָה
yânâh
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
עָשַׁק
ʻâshaq
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
גֵּר
gêr
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָנָה yânâh
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
Study H3238 →עֹשֶׁק ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Study H6233 →Cross References
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.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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,
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth...
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
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