Ezekiel 22:30

All classes (Ezekiel 22:25) are alike corrupt; a man to stand in the breach in behalf of the people is looked for in vain, cf. Jeremiah 5:1.

For "hedge" better fence, cf. on Ezekiel 13:5. A "man" here is not a man to intercede, but a man to interpose, to stem the tide of ruin and turn the fortunes of the people. The moral energies of the nation were wholly exhausted; it could no more put forth out of itself a saviour to retrieve its fortunes. Cf. Isaiah 59:16, "and he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was none to interpose" (Isaiah 63:5).