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Ezekiel 18:12

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

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ASV

hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

KJV

Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עָנִ֤י'a.Ni[the] poorH6041 →
וְאֶבְיוֹן֙ve.'ev.yOnand [the] needyH34 →
הוֹנָ֔הho.Nahhe has oppressedH3238 →
גְּזֵל֣וֹתge.ze.LotrobberiesH1500 →
גָּזָ֔לga.Zalhe has robbedH1497 →
חֲבֹ֖לcha.Vola pledgeH2258 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
יָשִׁ֑יבya.Shivhe returnedH7725 →
וְאֶל־ve.'el-and toH413 →
הַגִּלּוּלִים֙ha.gi.lu.Limthe idolsH1544 →
נָשָׂ֣אna.Sa'he has lifted upH5375 →
עֵינָ֔יו'ei.Naveyes hisH5869 →
תּוֹעֵבָ֖הto.'e.VahabominationH8441 →
עָשָֽׂה׃'a.Sahhe has doneH6213 →

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Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.Ezekiel 18:7He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!Ezekiel 8:6“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”2 Kings 21:11“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’Ezekiel 18:6–7He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.Ezekiel 18:16He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.Leviticus 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.Hosea 12:7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.Leviticus 18:26–30But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.James 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?Isaiah 59:6–7Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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