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Berean Standard Bible

“Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.”

Ezekiel 22:7

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

World English Bible (WEB)

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

King James Version (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.

American Standard Version (ASV)

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Al padre y á la madre despreciaron en ti: al extranjero trataron con calumnia en medio de ti: al huérfano y á la viuda despojaron en ti.

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Los padres y las madres son desdeñosamente ignorados; se obliga a los inmigrantes y a las visitas a pagarles por su “protección”; los huérfanos y las viudas son agraviados y oprimidos;

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