Ezekiel 22:12
Context| NETBible | 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 |
| XREF | Ex 22:25,26; Ex 23:7,8; Le 25:35,36; De 16:19; De 23:19; De 27:25; De 32:18; Ne 5:1,7; Ps 15:5; Ps 106:21; Pr 1:19; Isa 1:23; Isa 56:11; Jer 2:32; Jer 3:21; Eze 18:8,13; Eze 23:35; Mic 7:2,3; Zep 3:3,4; Mt 23:14,25; Lu 3:13; Lu 18:11; Lu 19:8; 1Co 5:11; 1Co 6:10; 1Ti 3:3; 1Ti 6:9,10; Jas 5:1-4; Jude 1:11 |
| NET © Notes |
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. |
