Ezekiel 22:27 Cross References - MKJV

²⁷ Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

²³ your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

³ And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men. ⁴ The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt. ⁵ And when she saw that she had waited and that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to tear the prey, and ate men.

⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

¹³ And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.

²⁵ A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.

⁹ So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood. And the thief comes in, the troop of robbers plunders outside. ² And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in; they are before My face. ³ They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies. ⁴ They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners. ⁶ For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps at night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.

² You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones; ³ who also eat the flesh of My people, and strip their skin off them. And they break their bones and chop them in pieces, like that in the pot, like those in the middle of the kettle.

⁹ Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

⁸ Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise; for if I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light to me.

³ Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.

¹³ And He said to them, It is written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer"; but you have made it a den of thieves.

⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme that worthy Name by which you are called?

¹ Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. ² Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.