Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 22:7

7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee they have dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless, and the widow.

In Ierusalem.

It's plural, and agrees with Princes, they whose better disposition, whose Education and greatness (beside the Command of God) should have advanced their venerable thoughts, and department towards Parents.

Have contemned Father and Mother, though God threatens to curse such as do so. Deut. 27.16.

The Princes still, as the construction in the Original, carrieth it,

By Force, and fraud; for the oppression here mentioned is made up of both; where either the Fox, or Lyon could apart▪ or else both [illegible: 1 letter]oyned, they have oppressed the Stranger expresly against God's command. Exod. 22.21.

Still the same Great Men, and Rulers, who should as Isai. 1.17. have defended, pleaded for, relieved, and comforted the Fatherless, and Widow, but contrarywise they oppress, disquiet, and make a prey of them.

Marginal references: Or, deceit.