Discovery BoxEzekiel 22:7 
Context22:7 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.
Ezekiel 22:29-31
Context22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. 3
22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. 4 22:31 So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, 5 declares the sovereign Lord.”
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.
3 tn Heb “and the foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”
4 tn Heb “I did not find.”
5 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”
