23 But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
(A)Bloodthirsty and deceitful men (B)shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.

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23 But you, God, will bring down the wicked
    into the pit(A) of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful(B)
    will not live out half their days.(C)

But as for me, I trust in you.(D)

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(A)Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed (B)innocent blood;
(C)Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and (D)destruction are in their paths.

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Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(A)
They pursue evil schemes;(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(C)

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27 Her (A)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [a]people, and to get dishonest gain.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls

27 Her officials(A) within her are like wolves(B) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people(C) to make unjust gain.(D)

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24 “Son of man, (A)they who inhabit those (B)ruins in the land of Israel are saying, (C)‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. (D)But we are many; the land has been given to us as a (E)possession.’

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24 “Son of man, the people living in those ruins(A) in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many;(B) surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’(C)

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26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you (A)defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’

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26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,(A) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.(B) Should you then possess the land?’

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