Lamentationes 22:30

Nova Vulgata

Et quaesivi de eis virum, qui interponeret saepem et staret in confractione contra me pro terra, ne dissiparem eam, et non inveni.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et qu�sivi de eis virum qui interponeret sepem, et staret oppositus contra me pro terra, ne dissiparem eam : et non inveni.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et qu�sivi de eis virum qui interponeret sepem, et staret oppositus contra me pro terra, ne dissiparem eam: et non inveni.

Bible Verse Review
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I sought: God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable. Isaiah 59:16, Isaiah 63:5, Jeremiah 5:1

make: Ezekiel 13:5, Genesis 18:23-32, Exodus 32:10-14, Psalms 106:23, Jeremiah 15:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:22 - stood Genesis 18:26 - General 2 Kings 13:14 - O my father 2 Kings 22:6 - masons Job 35:8 - may profit Psalms 94:16 - rise up Proverbs 29:8 - wise Isaiah 64:7 - there is Jeremiah 8:6 - no Jeremiah 18:20 - Remember Jeremiah 27:18 - let them Jeremiah 30:13 - none Ezekiel 24:8 - it might Hosea 7:7 - there Amos 4:12 - prepare John 4:23 - the Father seeketh 1 John 5:16 - he shall ask Revelation 15:2 - stand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I sought for a man among them,.... among the princes, priests, prophets, and people of the land, who acted the part as above described; for otherwise, no doubt, there were good people in the land, as Jeremiah, Baruch, and others, but not among these:

that should make up the hedge; that was broken down by the transgressions of the people, who exceeded all bounds of law and justice; one that would restrain them from sinning, and reform them, and set them a good example; one, as the Targum has it,

"whose works were good;''

a good man, that would endeavour by his influence to stop the breaking in of sin, and the consequences of it:

and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; in the gap that sin had made, at which the Lord was entering as a man of war to destroy the transgressors; one that should present himself to the Lord on the behalf of the people; seek mercy for them, as the Targum; interpose between God and them, and act the part of an intercessor; pray for them, as Moses did for the people of Israel, that he would not destroy them; see Psalms 106:23:

but I found none; no reformer of them, no repairer of the breach, nor restorer of paths, to dwell in; no intercessor for them, as Abraham for Sodom, Moses for Israel; or any, like Aaron, that stood between the living and the dead to stay the plague.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 22:30. I sought for a man — I saw that there was a grievous breach made in the moral state and feeling of the people, and I sought for a man that would stand in the gap; that would faithfully exhort, reprove and counsel, with all long-suffering and doctrine. But none was to be found!