32THAT I HAD PUT <OBJ.> TERROR MY IN [THE] LAND OF [THE] LIVING AND HE WILL BE LAID IN AMONG UNCIRCUMCISED [MEN] WITH [THOSE] SLAIN OF A SWORD PHARAOH AND ALL MULTITUDE HIS [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 32For I will spread My terror in the land of the living, so that Pharaoh and all his multitude will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.”
1AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING Ezekiel the Watchman for Israel 1Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2O SON OF HUMANKIND SPEAK TO [THE] CHILDREN OF PEOPLE YOUR AND YOU WILL SAY TO THEM A LAND THAT I WILL BRING ON IT A SWORD AND THEY WILL CHOOSE [THE] PEOPLE OF THE LAND A MAN ONE FROM ENDS THEIR AND THEY WILL MAKE <OBJ.> HIM FOR <THE> THEM INTO A WATCHMAN 2“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,
3AND HE WILL SEE <OBJ.> THE SWORD COMING ON THE LAND AND HE WILL GIVE A BLAST ON THE TRUMPET AND HE WILL WARN <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE 3and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people.
4AND HE WILL HEAR THE [ONE WHO] HEARS <OBJ.> [THE] SOUND OF THE TRUMPET AND NOT HE TOOK WARNING AND IT CAME [THE] SWORD AND IT TOOK HIM BLOOD HIS ON HEAD HIS IT WILL BE 4Then 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.
5<OBJ.> [THE] SOUND OF THE TRUMPET HE HEARD AND NOT HE TOOK WARNING BLOOD HIS ON HIM IT WILL BE AND HE HE HAD TAKEN WARNING LIFE HIS HE DELIVERED 5Since 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.
6AND THE WATCHMAN IF HE WILL SEE <OBJ.> THE SWORD COMING AND NOT HE WILL GIVE A BLAST ON THE TRUMPET AND THE PEOPLE NOT IT WAS WARNED AND IT CAME [THE] SWORD AND IT TOOK OF THEM ANYONE HE IN INIQUITY HIS HE WAS TAKEN AND BLOOD HIS FROM [THE] HAND OF THE WATCHMAN I WILL REQUIRE 6But 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
7AND YOU O SON OF HUMANKIND A WATCHMAN I HAVE APPOINTED YOU FOR [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND YOU WILL HEAR FROM MOUTH MY A WORD AND YOU WILL WARN <OBJ.> THEM FROM ME 7As 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
8WHEN SAY I TO THE WICKED [PERSON] O WICKED [PERSON] SURELY <DIE> YOU WILL DIE AND NOT YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO WARN [THE] WICKED [PERSON] FROM WAY HIS THAT WICKED [PERSON] IN INIQUITY HIS HE WILL DIE AND BLOOD HIS FROM HAND YOUR I WILL REQUIRE 8If 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.
9AND YOU IF YOU HAVE WARNED [THE] WICKED [PERSON] FROM WAY HIS TO TURN BACK FROM IT AND NOT HE HAS TURNED BACK FROM WAY HIS HE IN INIQUITY HIS HE WILL DIE AND YOU LIFE YOUR YOU HAVE DELIVERED 9But 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.*NoteCloseSee Acts 20:25–26
10AND YOU O SON OF HUMANKIND SAY TO [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL THUS YOU HAVE SAID <TO> SAYING THAT TRANSGRESSIONS OUR AND SINS OUR [ARE] ON US AND IN THEM WE [ARE] WASTING AWAY AND HOW? WILL WE LIVE The Message of the Watchman 10Now 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?’
11SAY TO THEM [BY] [THE] LIFE OF ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH IF I TAKE PLEASURE IN [THE] DEATH OF THE WICKED [PERSON] THAT EXCEPT WHEN TURNS BACK A WICKED [PERSON] FROM WAY HIS AND HE WILL LIVE TURN BACK TURN BACK FROM WAYS YOUR <THE> EVIL AND <TO> WHY? WILL YOU DIE O HOUSE OF ISRAEL 11Say 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?’
12AND YOU O SON OF HUMANKIND SAY TO [THE] CHILDREN OF PEOPLE YOUR [THE] RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] NOT IT WILL DELIVER HIM ON [THE] DAY OF TRANSGRESSION HIS AND [THE] WICKEDNESS OF THE WICKED [PERSON] NOT HE WILL STUMBLE IN IT ON [THE] DAY TURNS BACK HE FROM WICKEDNESS HIS AND A RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] NOT HE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE IN IT ON [THE] DAY SINS HE 12Therefore, 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.’
13WHEN SAY I TO THE RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] CERTAINLY <LIVE> HE WILL LIVE AND HE HE RELIES ON RIGHTEOUSNESS HIS AND HE WILL DO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS<ES> HIS NOT THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED AND IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS HIS WHICH HE HAS DONE IN IT HE WILL DIE 13If 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
14AND WHEN SAY I TO THE WICKED [PERSON] SURELY <DIE> YOU WILL DIE AND HE WILL TURN BACK FROM SIN HIS AND HE WILL DO JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS 14But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
15A PLEDGE HE WILL RETURN A WICKED [PERSON] ROBBERY HE WILL REPAY IN [THE] STATUTES OF <THE> LIFE HE WALKS TO NOT TO DO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS CERTAINLY <LIVE> HE WILL LIVE NOT HE WILL DIE 15if 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.
16ALL SINS HIS WHICH HE HAS SINNED NOT THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED TO HIM JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS HE HAS DONE CERTAINLY <LIVE> HE WILL LIVE 16None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
17AND THEY SAY [THE] CHILDREN OF PEOPLE YOUR NOT IT IS CORRECT [THE] WAY OF [THE] LORD AND THEY OWN WAY THEIR NOT IT IS CORRECT 17Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
18WHEN TURNS BACK A RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS HIS AND HE WILL DO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND HE WILL DIE IN THEM 18If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
19AND WHEN TURNS BACK A WICKED [PERSON] FROM WICKEDNESS HIS AND HE WILL DO JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ON THEM HE HE WILL LIVE 19But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
20AND YOU SAY NOT IT IS CORRECT [THE] WAY OF [THE] LORD EVERYONE ACCORDING TO WAYS HIS I WILL JUDGE <OBJ.> YOU O HOUSE OF ISRAEL 20Yet 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.”
21AND IT WAS IN TWO [PLUS] TEN YEAR IN THE TENTH [MONTH] ON [DAY] FIVE OF THE MONTH OF EXILE OUR HE CAME TO ME THE ESCAPEE FROM JERUSALEM <TO> SAYING IT HAS BEEN STRUCK THE CITY Word of Jerusalem’s Fall 21In 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!”
22AND [THE] HAND OF YAHWEH IT HAD BEEN TO ME IN THE EVENING <TO> BEFORE CAME THE ESCAPEE AND HE HAD OPENED <OBJ.> MOUTH MY UNTIL CAME TO ME IN THE MORNING AND IT WAS OPENED MOUTH MY AND NOT I WAS DUMB AGAIN 22Now 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.
24O SON OF HUMANKIND [THE] INHABITANTS OF THE WASTE PLACES <THE> THESE ON [THE] LAND OF ISRAEL [ARE] SAYING <TO> SAYING ONE HE WAS ABRAHAM AND HE POSSESSED <OBJ.> THE LAND AND WE [ARE] MANY TO US IT HAS BEEN GIVEN THE LAND TO A POSSESSION 24“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.’
25<TO> THEREFORE SAY TO THEM THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH WITH THE BLOOD YOU EAT AND EYES YOUR YOU LIFT UP TO IDOLS YOUR AND BLOOD YOU SHED AND ¿ LAND WILL YOU POSSESS? 25Therefore 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?
26YOU HAVE STOOD ON SWORD YOUR YOU HAVE DONE ABOMINATION AND EVERYONE <OBJ.> [THE] WIFE OF NEIGHBOR HIS YOU HAVE DEFILED AND THE LAND WILL YOU POSSESS? 26You 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?’
27THUS YOU WILL SAY TO THEM THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH [BY] [THE] LIFE OF ME IF NOT [THOSE] WHO [ARE] IN THE WASTE PLACES BY THE SWORD THEY WILL FALL AND [THE ONE] WHO [IS] ON [THE] SURFACE OF THE FIELD TO THE ANIMAL[S] I WILL GIVE HIM TO EAT HIM AND [THOSE] WHO [ARE] IN THE STRONGHOLDS AND IN THE CAVES BY <THE> PESTILENCE THEY WILL DIE 27Tell 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.
28AND I WILL MAKE <OBJ.> THE LAND A DESOLATION AND A WASTE AND IT WILL CEASE [THE] PRIDE OF STRENGTH ITS AND THEY WILL BE DESOLATE [THE] MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL FROM NOT [ONE WHO] PASSES BY 28I 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.
29AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH WHEN MAKE I <OBJ.> THE LAND A DESOLATION AND A WASTE ON ALL ABOMINATIONS THEIR WHICH THEY HAVE DONE 29Then 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.’
30AND YOU O SON OF HUMANKIND [THE] CHILDREN OF PEOPLE YOUR WHO ARE SPEAKING TOGETHER IN YOU BESIDE THE WALLS AND IN [THE] DOORWAYS OF THE HOUSES AND HE SPEAKS ONE WITH ONE EACH WITH BROTHER HIS <TO> SAYING COME PLEASE AND HEAR WHAT? [IS] THE WORD THAT IS COMING OUT FROM WITH YAHWEH 30As 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!’
31SO THEY MAY COME TO YOU LIKE [THE] COMING OF A PEOPLE SO THEY MAY SIT <TO> BEFORE YOU PEOPLE MY AND THEY HEAR <OBJ.> WORDS YOUR AND <OBJ.> THEM NOT THEY DO FOR LUSTFUL DESIRES IN MOUTH THEIR THEY [ARE] DOING AFTER UNJUST GAIN THEIR HEART THEIR [IS] GOING 31So 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.
32AND THERE YOU TO THEM [ARE] LIKE A SONG OF LUSTFUL DESIRES [ONE] BEAUTIFUL OF VOICE AND [ONE WHO] DOES WELL TO PLAY AND THEY HEAR <OBJ.> WORDS YOUR AND [ARE] DOING NOT THEY <OBJ.> THEM 32Indeed, 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.
33AND WHEN COMES IT THERE! [IT IS] COMING AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT A PROPHET HE HAS BEEN IN MIDST OF THEM 33So when it comes to pass— and surely it will come— then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”