Ezekiel 22:25

Israel’s Wicked Leaders

23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is ^anot cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’

25 ^aThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they ^bhave devoured people; ^cthey have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

26 ^aHer priests have violated My law and ^bprofaned My holy things; they have not ^cdistinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

27 Her ^aprinces in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy¹ people, and to get dishonest gain.

28 ^aHer prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, ^bseeing false visions, and divining ^clies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken.

29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully ^aoppress the stranger.

30 ^aSo I sought for a man among them who would ^bmake a wall, and ^cstand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.

31 Therefore I have ^apoured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed ^btheir deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 22:23-31

The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people.

Ezekiel 22:26

Violated - Better as in margin; to offer "violence" to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office of the priests to keep up the distinction between "holy" and "unholy," "clean" and "unclean" Leviticus 10:10.

Ezekiel 22:28

See the marginal reference note.

Ezekiel 22:30

The land might be said to perish for the lack of such interpositions as saved their forefathers when Moses "stood in the gap." This was a proof of the general corruption, that there was not in the city sufficient righteousness to save it from utter destruction. Prince, prophet, priest, all fail.

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