◄ Ezekiel 22:27 ►
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

King James Bible
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

International Standard Version
Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain.

American Standard Version
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.

Darby Bible Translation
Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Young's Literal Translation
Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

Cross References
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Acts 20:29
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Jeremiah 5:6
Why a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jeremiah 34:19
The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

Jeremiah 41:7
And it was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

Ezekiel 22:3
Then say you, Thus said the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the middle of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:13
Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the middle of you.

Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the middle thereof.

Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

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Commentaries
Matthew Henry's Commentary
22:23-31 All orders and degrees of men had helped to fill the measure of the nation's guilt. The people that had any power abused it, and even the buyers and sellers find some way to oppress one another. It bodes ill to a people when judgments are breaking in upon them, and the spirit of prayer is restrained. Let all who fear God, unite to promote his truth and righteousness; as wicked men of every rank and profession plot together to run them down.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. princes—who should have employed the influence of their position for the people's welfare, made "gain" their sole aim.

wolves—notorious for fierce and ravening cruelty (Mic 3:2, 3, 9-11; Joh 10:12).

Ezekiel 22:26
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