Ezekiel 22:7
“In thee haue they set light by father and mother: in the middest of thee haue they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widow:”
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Ezekiel 22:7 Context
5Those that be neere, and those that be farre from thee, shall mocke thee which art infamous, and much vexed. 6Behold the princes of Israel, euerie one were in thee to their power to shead blood. 7In thee haue they set light by father and mother: in the middest of thee haue they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widow: 8Thou hast despised mine holy things, & hast prophaned my sabbaths: 9In thee are men that carie tales to shead blood: and in thee they eate vpon the mountaines: in the middest of thee they commit lewdnesse.
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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.
- King James Version
"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.
- New American Standard Version (1995)