mkjv - Ezekiel:33:1-20

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:1 @ And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:2 @ Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, of their borders, and set him for their watchman;

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:3 @ if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:4 @ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword does come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:5 @ He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning. His blood shall be on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned; if the sword comes and takes [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at the watchman's hand.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:7 @ And you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear the Word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:8 @ When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:9 @ But, if you warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:10 @ And you, son of man, speak to the house of Israel. So you have spoken, saying, When our transgressions and our sins [are] on us, and we are wasting away in them, How then shall we live?

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them: [As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:12 @ Therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sins.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:13 @ When I shall say to the righteous [that] he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:14 @ Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin and does justice and right;

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:15 @ [if] the wicked gives back the pledge, gives again what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, then he shall surely live; he shall not die.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:16 @ None of his sins that he has committed shall be called to his memory. He has done justice and right; he shall surely live.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:17 @ Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair. But as for them, their way is not fair.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:18 @ When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall even die by them.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:19 @ But if the wicked turns from his wickedness and does justice and right, he shall live by them.

mkjv@Ezekiel:33:20 @ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways.