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The Watchman's Duty and Personal Responsibility

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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Chapter 33
1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying. 2 Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them: When I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their borders and make him a watchman for them. 3 And he sees the sword coming upon the land, blows the shofar, and warns the people. 4 And the hearer heard the voice of the shofar and did not take heed, and the sword came and took him—his blood shall be on his head. 5 He heard the voice of the shofar but did not take heed—his blood will be on him; but he took heed for his nephesh, and it was delivered. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the shofar, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes a nephesh from them—he is taken in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from the hand of the watchman. 7 And you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. You shall hear a word from my mouth and warn them for me. 8 When I say to the wicked, “O wicked one, you shall die,” and you do not warn him about his way, that wicked one will die in his iniquity, and I will require his blood at your hand. 9 But you, if you warn a wicked person from his way to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, and you have delivered your nephesh. 10 And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: You have said, "For our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and in them we are melting away. How shall we live?" 11 Say to them, “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 his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?” 12 And you, son of Adam, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not cause him to stumble in it in the day of his return from his wickedness, and a righteous one will not be able to live in it in the day of his sin. 13 When I say to the righteous, “You will live,” and he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteousnesses will be remembered; in his injustice that he has done, in it he will die. 14 And when I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and he turns from his sin and does justice and righteousness, 15 If the wicked restores the pledge, repays the robbery, and walks in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice, he shall live; he shall not die. 16 All his sins that he sinned shall not be remembered against him; he has done judgment and righteousness; he shall surely live. 17 And they will say, “The sons of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ but their own way is not right.” 18 When the righteous one turns from his righteousness and does injustice and dies in them: 19 And when the wicked one turns from his wickedness and does justice and righteousness, it shall be credited to him; he will live. 20 And you will say, "The way of the Lord is not right." "Man—according to his ways—I will judge you, house of Israel."