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.
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Gill's Exposition
The people of the land have used oppression,.... The common people, the more powerful among them, such as were in greatest authority in cities and towns, in neighbourhoods and families, the richest…
The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people. Eze 22:26 Violated - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office…
Adam Clarke
The people - All that have power or authority have abused it; vexed and oppressed the poor, the needy, and the stranger.
Here is, I. A general idea given of the land of Israel, how well it deserved the judgments coming to destroy it and how much it needed these judgments to refine it. Let the prophet tell her plainly,…
Cambridge Bible
people of the land The phrase for the common people already, Jer 37:2, and common in Eze 7:27; Eze 12:19, &c. The "people of the land" is certainly subject here, cf. Eze 22:22, ch. Eze 18:12; Jer…
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