Ezekiel 22:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ Behold in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded themselves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood.

³⁴ Our kings, and our chiefs, and our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies which thou hast testified against them.

²³ The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do not administer justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend.

²⁶ As a thief when taken, is ashamed; so shall the children of Israel be put to shame. They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets, ²⁷ said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me. And turned their backs to me and not their faces: yet in the time of their troubles they will say, Arise and save us.

⁵ I will go to the nobles and speak to them. [J] Because these knew the way of the Lord and the judgment of God, and lo! with one consent, have broken the yoke and burst the bands;

³² let him remove it from my presence on account of all the iniquities of the children of Israel and Juda, which they and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets, the men of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done to provoke me.

²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness.

⁸ In thee, Lord, is our righteousness. Though to us belongeth confusion of face; to our kings, and our chiefs and our fathers, who have sinned against thee:

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God.

¹ and he will say, "Hear these things ye children of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, is it not your business to know judgment? ² As for them who hate good and seek evil, who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: ³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot:

⁹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, ye leaders of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment and pervert all equity, ¹⁰ who are building up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice. ¹¹ [J] Her rulers have judged for rewards; and her priests have given answers for hire; and her prophets have prophesied for silver, without waiting for the Lord, saying, "Is not the Lord among us? No evils shall come upon us:"

³ [Now Jesus was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel.]