Verse 12
Ezekiel 22:12
Young's Literal Translation
12
A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
Original Language Text
hebrew
שֹׁ֥חַד לָֽקְחוּ בָ֖/ךְ לְמַ֣עַן שְׁפָךְ דָּ֑ם נֶ֧שֶׁךְ וְ/תַרְבִּ֣ית לָקַ֗חַתְּ וַ/תְּבַצְּעִ֤י רֵעַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ בַּ/עֹ֔שֶׁק וְ/אֹתִ֣/י שָׁכַ֔חַתְּ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥/י יְהוִֽה
English Translation
You took bribes in order to shed blood, and you took interest and increase; you oppressed your neighbor and forgot my words, says the Lord God.
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Chapter 22 Context
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And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
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'And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it...
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and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the com...
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By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou...
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The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee, O defiled of name -- abounding in trouble.
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Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
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Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Father...
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My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.
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9
Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wicked...
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10
The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.
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And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath def...
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12
A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off t...
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And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blo...
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Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah,...
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And I have scattered thee among nations, And have spread thee out among lands, And consumed thy uncl...
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And thou hast been polluted in thyself Before the eyes of nations, And thou hast known that I [am] J...
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And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man,
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The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead,...
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Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathe...
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A gathering of silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, Unto the midst of a furnace -- to blo...
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And I have heaped you up, And blown on you in the fire of My wrath, And ye have been melted in its m...
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As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, So are ye melted in its midst, And ye have known...
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And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
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'Son of man, say to it, Thou [art] a land, It [is] not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignatio...
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A conspiracy of its prophets [is] in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have d...
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Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have...
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Its princes in its midst [are] as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sak...
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And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie,...
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The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and n...
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And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land...
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And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on thei...
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