Ezekiel 22:27

English Standard Version 2016

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:13

“Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.

Ezekiel 22:6

“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Matthew 21:13

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Micah 7:8

Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:25

The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Jeremiah 34:19

the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.

Jeremiah 41:7

When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and cast them into a cistern.

Ezekiel 22:3

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

Ezekiel 36:12

I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.

Ezekiel 45:8

of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.

Ezekiel 46:18

The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.