Discovery BoxEzekiel 22:12 
Context22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 1 you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 2 declares the sovereign Lord. 3
Ezekiel 24:16
Context24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, 4 but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.
Ezekiel 33:25
Context33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, 5 pray to 6 your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess 7 the land?
1 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 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 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
4 tn Heb “a strike.”
5 sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).
6 tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”
7 tn Heb “Will you possess?”
