Ezekiel 22:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:13

See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain you have made and at the blood that has been shed within you.

Ezekiel 22:6

The princes of Israel in you, everyone 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 defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Matthew 21:13

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

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, my enemies; 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 do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

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 I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them; a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their faithlessness is 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 reached the middle of the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

Ezekiel 22:3

You shall say: Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

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

Ezekiel 36:12

I will lead people upon you—my people Israel—and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance. No longer shall you bereave them of children.

Ezekiel 45:8

of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no longer 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 holding; he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own holding, so that none of my people shall be dispossessed of their holding.”

Habakkuk 2:9

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations, and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accept a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice.

Lamentations 4:13

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

Ezekiel 13:19

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

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge by asserting that all this was true.