Ezekiel 22:7

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.

Ex 21:17; Ex 22:21,22; Le 20:9; De 27:16; De 27:19; Pr 20:20; Pr 22:22,23; Pr 30:11,17; Jer 7:6; Eze 18:12; Eze 22:29; Zec 7:10; Mal 3:5; Mt 15:4-6; Mr 7:10

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.