Ezekiel 33

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“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 them, and set him for their watchman,Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · 2Sam 18:24 · 2Ki 9:17 · Isa 21:6 · Isa 56:9 · Isa 62:6 · +19 more

3if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,Cross-references: Neh 4:18 · Neh 4:20 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 4:5 · Jer 6:1 · Jer 51:27 · +3 more

4then 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.Cross-references: Lev 20:9 · Lev 20:11 · 2Sam 1:16 · 1Ki 2:37 · 2Chr 25:16 · Prov 29:1 · +9 more

5He 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 soul.Cross-references: Ex 9:19 · 2Ki 6:10 · Ps 95:7 · Isa 51:2 · John 8:39 · Acts 2:37 · +2 more

6But 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 among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’Cross-references: Gen 9:5 · Gen 42:22 · 2Sam 4:11 · Prov 14:32 · Isa 56:10 · Ezek 3:18 · +5 more

7“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.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:14 · 1Ki 22:16 · 2Chr 19:10 · Song 3:3 · Song 5:7 · Isa 62:6 · +17 more

8When 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 iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:4 · Num 27:3 · Prov 11:21 · Eccl 8:13 · Isa 3:11 · +10 more

9Nevertheless, 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 your soul.Cross-references: Prov 15:10 · Prov 29:1 · Ezek 3:19 · Ezek 3:21 · Luke 12:47 · John 8:24 · +14 more

10“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?”’Cross-references: Lev 26:39 · Ps 130:7 · Isa 49:14 · Isa 51:20 · Jer 2:25 · Ezek 4:17 · +2 more

11Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’Cross-references: Num 14:21 · Num 14:28 · 2Sam 14:14 · Prov 1:23 · Prov 8:36 · Isa 49:18 · +22 more

12“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 for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:48 · 2Chr 7:14 · Ezek 3:20 · Ezek 18:21 · Ezek 18:24 · Ezek 33:2 · +4 more

13When 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 remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.Cross-references: Ezek 3:20 · Ezek 18:4 · Ezek 18:24 · Luke 18:9 · Rom 10:3 · Phil 3:9 · +3 more

14Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” if he turns from his sin and does that which is lawful and right,Cross-references: Prov 28:13 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 55:7 · Jer 4:1 · Jer 18:7 · Ezek 3:18 · +8 more

15if 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 live. He will not die.Cross-references: Ex 22:1 · Ex 22:26 · Lev 6:2 · Lev 18:5 · Num 5:6 · Deut 24:6 · +17 more

16None 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.Cross-references: Isa 1:18 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 44:22 · Ezek 18:22 · Mic 7:18 · Rom 5:16 · +2 more

17“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.Cross-references: Job 35:2 · Job 40:8 · Ezek 18:25 · Ezek 18:29 · Ezek 33:20 · Matt 25:24 · +1 more

18When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.Cross-references: Ezek 3:20 · Ezek 18:26 · Ezek 33:12 · Heb 10:38 · 2Pet 2:20

19When the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.Cross-references: Ezek 18:27 · Ezek 33:14

20Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”Cross-references: Ps 62:12 · Prov 19:3 · Eccl 12:14 · Ezek 18:25 · Ezek 18:29 · Ezek 33:17 · +5 more

21In 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 city has been defeated!”Cross-references: 2Ki 24:4 · 2Ki 25:4 · 2Ki 25:10 · 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 39:1 · Jer 52:4 · +4 more

22Now Yahweh’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 my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.Cross-references: Ezek 1:3 · Ezek 3:22 · Ezek 3:26 · Ezek 24:26 · Ezek 37:1 · Ezek 40:1 · +1 more

23Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

24“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 land is given us for inheritance.’Cross-references: Isa 51:2 · Jer 39:10 · Jer 40:7 · Ezek 5:3 · Ezek 11:15 · Ezek 33:27 · +11 more

25Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?Cross-references: Gen 9:4 · Lev 3:17 · Lev 7:26 · Lev 17:10 · Lev 19:26 · Deut 4:19 · +15 more

26You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’Cross-references: Gen 27:40 · Lev 18:25 · Lev 20:13 · Lev 20:22 · Deut 4:25 · Deut 29:18 · +15 more

27“You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the open field to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.Cross-references: Judg 6:2 · 1Sam 13:6 · 1Sam 22:1 · 1Sam 23:14 · 1Sam 24:3 · Isa 2:19 · +8 more

28I 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 will pass through.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Isa 6:11 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 16:16 · Jer 25:11 · Jer 44:2 · +13 more

29Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’Cross-references: Ex 14:18 · 2Ki 17:9 · 2Chr 36:14 · Ps 9:16 · Ps 83:17 · Jer 5:1 · +12 more

30“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 his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’Cross-references: Isa 29:13 · Isa 58:2 · Jer 11:18 · Jer 18:18 · Jer 23:35 · Jer 42:1 · +3 more

31They 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 much love, but their heart goes after their gain.Cross-references: Deut 5:28 · Ps 78:36 · Isa 28:13 · Isa 29:13 · Jer 6:16 · Jer 23:33 · +22 more

32Behold, 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 don’t do them.Cross-references: Mark 4:16 · Mark 6:20 · John 5:35

33“When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”Cross-references: 1Sam 3:19 · 2Ki 5:8 · Jer 28:9 · Ezek 2:5 · Ezek 33:29 · Luke 10:11