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Ezekiel 22:12-14
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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]

13 “‘See, I strike my hands together[d] at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed[e] they have done among you. 14 Can your heart endure,[f] or can your hands be strong when I deal with you?[g] I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Ezekiel 22:13 sn This gesture apparently expresses mourning and/or anger (see 6:11; 21:14, 17).
  5. Ezekiel 22:13 tn Heb “the blood that was in you.”
  6. Ezekiel 22:14 tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.
  7. Ezekiel 22:14 tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”
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