What does Ezekiel 22:7 mean?
ESV: 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.
NIV: In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
NASB: They have treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst; they have oppressed the orphan and the widow among you.
CSB: Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
NLT: Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.
KJV: 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.
NKJV: 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.
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