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Ezekiel 22:12
New English Translation
Ezekiel 22:12
New English Translation
12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;[a] you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,[b] declares the Sovereign Lord.[c]
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- Ezekiel 22:12 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.
- Ezekiel 22:12 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.
- Ezekiel 22:12 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
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