Eze 22:12 | NETfull | STEP | They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the sovereign Lord .

Ezekiel 22:12

12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ^{▼▼ Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.} you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ^{▼▼ 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.} declares the sovereign Lord. ^{▼▼ The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.}