King James Version
Ezekiel 22:27 in the King James Version says “Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishones...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.”
Ezekiel 22:27 · KJV
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. violated: Heb. offered violence to
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
The people of the land have used oppression , and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. oppression: or, deceit wrongfully: Heb. without right
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“in the midst”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
“ravening”
H2963to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
“to shed”
H8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc
“blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
“and to destroy”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
“souls”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“to get”
H1214to break off, i.e., (usually) plunder; figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop
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