Ezekiel 22:7
ContextNET © | They have treated father and mother with contempt 1 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 2 within you. |
NIV © | In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the alien and ill-treated the fatherless and the widow. |
NASB © | "They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you. |
NLT © | Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed. |
MSG © | You're a community that's insolent to parents, abusive to outsiders, oppressive against orphans and widows. |
BBE © | In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow. |
NRSV © | Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you. |
NKJV © | "In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. |
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NET © | They have treated father and mother with contempt 1 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 2 within you. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.” 2 tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation. |