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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 33 MSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//ezekiel/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">MSB</a> > Ezekiel 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/32.htm" title="Ezekiel 32">◄</a> Ezekiel 33 <a href="../ezekiel/34.htm" title="Ezekiel 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/ezekiel/33.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Ezekiel the Watchman for Israel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then if anyone hears the sound of the horn but fails to heed the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Since he heard the sound of the horn but failed to heed the warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’ <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As for you, O son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word from My mouth and give them the warning from Me. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">The Message of the Watchman<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’ <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’ <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right— <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.” <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Word of Jerusalem’s Fall<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’ <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’ <A name="28"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’ <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’ <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So when it comes to pass—and surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> See <a href="../acts/20.htm#25">Acts 20:25</a>–26<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//majoritybible.com">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB</a> is produced in cooperation with <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a>, <a href="//discoverybible.com">Discovery Bible</a>, <a href="//openbible.com">OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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