Ezekiel 22:27 Cross References - DouayRheims

²⁷ 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.

²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

³ And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. ⁴ And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt. ⁵ But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

⁶ Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

¹³ Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised: and at the blood that hath been shed in the midst of thee.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof.

⁹ Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.

¹ When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without. ² And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face. ³ They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies. ⁴ They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. ⁵ The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners. ⁶ Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire. ⁷ They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

² You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones? ³ Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

⁹ Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right. ¹⁰ You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

⁸ Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

³ Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

¹³ And he saith 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 have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats? ⁷ Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

¹ Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. ⁴ Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.