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.

biblegateway Eze 22:7

"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.

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.

biblegateway Eze 22:7

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.

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

bibleoremus Eze 22:7

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.

in you fathers and mothers have been treated contemptuously, aliens have been oppressed, the fatherless and the widow have been wronged.

biblegateway Eze 22:7

"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.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

biblegateway Eze 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.

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.