Yehezkiel 22:6-7

22:6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood. ¹  22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt ²  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow ³  within you.

Yehezkiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ⁴  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ⁵  declares the sovereign Lord. ⁶ 

[22:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Look! The princes of Israel, each according to his arm, were in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:7]  ² tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

[22:7]  ³ tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.

[22:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  ⁵ 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.

[22:12]  ⁶ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.