Ezekiel Chapter 33

• Ezekiel 33:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 33:2
  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 33:3
  “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among ...
• Ezekiel 33:4
  if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
• Ezekiel 33:5
  then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.
• Ezekiel 33:6
  He heard the sound of the trumpet and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his...
• Ezekiel 33:7
  But if the watchman sees the sword come and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from amon...
• Ezekiel 33:8
  “So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.
• Ezekiel 33:9
  When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniq...
• Ezekiel 33:10
  Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered...
• Ezekiel 33:11
  “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?...
• Ezekiel 33:12
  Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn...
• Ezekiel 33:13
  “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as fo...
• Ezekiel 33:14
  When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be rememb...
• Ezekiel 33:15
  Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” if he turns from his sin and does that which is lawful and right,
• Ezekiel 33:16
  if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he will surely ...
• Ezekiel 33:17
  None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
• Ezekiel 33:18
  “‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
• Ezekiel 33:19
  When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
• Ezekiel 33:20
  When the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.
• Ezekiel 33:21
  Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
• Ezekiel 33:22
  In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The...
• Ezekiel 33:23
  Now the LORD’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and ...
• Ezekiel 33:24
  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 33:25
  “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The...
• Ezekiel 33:26
  Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
• Ezekiel 33:27
  You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’
• Ezekiel 33:28
  “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the o...
• Ezekiel 33:29
  I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one wil...
• Ezekiel 33:30
  Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their abominations which they have c...
• Ezekiel 33:31
  “As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to...
• Ezekiel 33:32
  They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show...
• Ezekiel 33:33
  Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they ...
• Ezekiel 33:34
  “When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”