에스겔 33
Korean Living Bible
파수꾼 에스겔
33 여호와께서 나에게 말씀하셨다.
2 “사람의 아들아, 너는 네 백성에 게 이렇게 말하라. ‘내가 어떤 나라에 군대를 보내고 그 땅 백성들이 자기들 중 한 사람을 택하여 파수꾼을 세웠다고 하자.
3 그가 적군이 쳐들어오는 것을 보고 나팔을 불어 그 백성에게 경고하였으나
4 나팔 소리를 듣고도 그 경고를 무시하고 방심하다가 적군의 칼날에 죽으면 그 책임은 죽은 사람 자신에게 있다.
5 그가 나팔 소리를 듣고도 경고를 무시하였으므로 그가 죽은 것은 전적으로 그의 잘못이다. 만일 그가 그 경고를 받아들였다면 자기 생명을 구할 수 있었을 것이다.
6 그러나 만일 그 파수꾼이 적군이 오는 것을 보고도 경고의 나팔을 불지 않아 사람들이 적의 칼날에 죽으면 그들은 자기들의 죄로 죽겠지만 나는 그들의 죽음에 대한 책임을 그 파수꾼에게 물을 것이다.’
7 “사람의 아들아, 이와 같이 내가 너를 이스라엘 백성의 파수꾼으로 삼았다. 그러므로 너는 내 말을 듣고 내 대신 그들에게 경고하라.
8 내가 악인에게 ‘악인아, 네가 반드시 죽을 것이다’ 하고 말할 때 네가 그 악인에게 경고하여 그를 악한 길에서 돌아서게 하지 않으면 그 악인은 자기 죄로 죽겠지만 나는 그의 죽음에 대한 책임을 너에게 묻겠다.
9 그러나 네가 그 악인에게 악한 길에서 돌아서라고 경고하여도 그가 돌아서지 않으면 그는 자기 죄 때문에 죽을 것이며 너에게는 아무 책임이 없을 것이다.
10 “사람의 아들아, 너는 이스라엘 백성에게 이렇게 말하라: 너희는 ‘우리가 우리 죄와 잘못 때문에 짓눌려 쇠잔해 가는데 어떻게 살 수 있겠는가?’ 하고 말한다.
11 나 주 여호와가 분명히 말하지만 나는 악인이 죽는 것을 기뻐하지 않고 오히려 악인이 악한 길에서 떠나 사는 것을 기뻐한다. 이스라엘 백성아, 너희는 악한 길에서 돌아서라! 너희가 어째서 죽으려고 하느냐?
12 “사람의 아들아, 너는 네 동족에게 말하라. ‘의로운 사람이 범죄하면 그의 의도 그를 구원하지 못할 것이다. 비록 악인일지라도 악에서 떠나면 그 악이 그를 쓰러뜨리지 못할 것이며 의로운 자라고 해도 그가 범죄하면 이전의 의만 가지고는 살지 못할 것이다.’
13 “내가 의로운 사람은 반드시 살 것이라고 말했어도 그가 만일 자기 의만 믿고 악을 행하면 전에 그가 행한 의로운 행위가 하나도 기억되지 않을 것이며 그는 자기가 범한 죄 때문에 죽게 될 것이다.
14 그러나 내가 악인에게 ‘너는 죽을 것이다’ 하고 말했을지라도 그가 만일 자기 죄에서 떠나 선하고 옳은 일을 행하며
15 전당물이나 훔친 물건을 돌려 주고 생명의 법을 따르며 다시 죄를 짓지 않으면 그는 분명히 살고 죽지 않을 것이다.
16 그가 전에 지은 죄는 하나도 기억되지 않을 것이며 그가 선하고 옳은 일을 행하였으므로 분명히 살게 될 것이다.
17 “그래도 네 민족은 내가 행하는 일이 공정하지 않다고 말하고 있다. 그러나 잘못된 것은 바로 그들이다.
18 만일 의로운 자가 그 의에서 떠나 악을 행하면 그는 그것 때문에 죽을 것이고
19 만일 악인이 그 악에서 떠나 선하고 옳은 일을 행하면 그는 그것 때문에 살 것이다.
20 “이스라엘 백성들아, 너희는 그래도 나 여호와가 행하는 일이 공정하지 않다고 말하고 있다. 그러나 나는 너희가 행하는 대로 심판할 것이다.”
예루살렘 함락과 유다 패망의 원인
21 우리가 포로 되어 온 지 12년째가 되는 해 10월 5일에 예루살렘에서 도망쳐 나온 어떤 사람이 나에게 그 성이 함락되었다고 말해 주었다.
22 그가 오기 전날 저녁에 나는 여호와의 손길이 내 위에 있음을 느꼈다. 다음날 아침 그가 나에게 왔을 때 여호와께서 내 입을 열어 주셨으므로 나는 더 이상 침묵을 지키지 않았다.
23 그때 여호와께서 나에게 말씀하셨다.
24 “사람의 아들아, 이스라엘의 황폐한 땅에 사는 사람들이 이런 말을 하고 있다. ‘아브라함은 혼자서도 이 땅을 소유했는데 우리는 수가 많으므로 말할 것도 없이 이 땅은 우리의 것이다.’
25 그러므로 너는 나 주 여호와가 하는 말을 그들에게 일러 주어라. ‘너희가 고기를 피째 먹고 우상을 섬기며 사람을 죽이면서도 그 땅을 소유하겠다고 생각하느냐?
26 너희가 칼을 믿고 역겨운 일을 행하며 이웃의 아내를 더럽히면서도 그 땅을 소유하려고 생각하느냐?’
27 너는 그들에게 나 주 여호와가 이렇게 말한다고 일러 주어라. ‘내가 분명히 말하지만 폐허가 된 성에 사는 자들을 칼날에 쓰러지게 하고 들에 있는 자들은 들짐승에게 먹히게 하며 요새와 동굴에 숨어 있는 자들은 무서운 질병으로 죽게 할 것이다.
28 내가 그 땅을 황무지로 만들어 버리겠다. 힘을 자랑하던 그들의 교만이 꺾일 것이며 이스라엘의 산들이 황폐하여 그리로 지나다니는 자가 없을 것이다.
29 그들이 행한 모든 더러운 일 때문에 내가 그 땅을 황폐하게 할 것이니 그들이 나를 여호와인 줄 알 것이다.’
30 “사람의 아들아, 네 백성이 성벽 곁과 집 문간에서 너에 관해 서로 이야기하며 ‘자, 가서 여호와께서 하시는 말씀을 들어 보자’ 하고 말한다.
31 그들이 평소 때와 마찬가지로 네 앞에 앉아서 네 말을 듣지만 그들은 네 말대로 실천하지 않는다. 그들이 입으로는 사랑을 말하지만 그들의 마음은 사리 사욕을 채우는 데 급급하다.
32 그들에게는 네가 고운 목소리로 사랑의 노래를 부르며 악기를 잘 다루는 사람으로밖에 보이지 않는다. 그래서 그들은 네 말을 듣고도 실천하지 않는 것이다.
33 그러나 너의 모든 말이 이루어질 것이다. 그 말이 이루어지면 그들이 자기들 가운데 한 예언자가 있었음을 알게 될 것이다.”
Ezekiel 33
New King James Version
The Watchman and His Message
33 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, speak to (A)the children of your people, and say to them: (B)‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their (C)watchman, 3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does (D)not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, (E)his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will [a]save his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, (F)he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
7 (G)“So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. 8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have [b]delivered your soul.
10 “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘Thus you say, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we (H)pine[c] away in them, (I)how can we then live?” ’ 11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, (J)‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked (K)turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For (L)why should you die, O house of Israel?’
The Fairness of God’s Judgment
12 “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: ‘The (M)righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, (N)he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.’ 13 When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, (O)but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die. 14 Again, (P)when I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ if he turns from his sin and does [d]what is lawful and [e]right, 15 if the wicked (Q)restores the pledge, (R)gives back what he has stolen, and walks in (S)the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 (T)None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 (U)“Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not [f]fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair! 18 (V)When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. 20 Yet you say, (W)‘The way of the Lord is not [g]fair.’ O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways.”
The Fall of Jerusalem
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year (X)of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, (Y)that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, (Z)“The city has been [h]captured!”
22 Now (AA)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had (AB)opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
The Cause of Judah’s Ruin
23 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 24 “Son of man, (AC)they who inhabit those (AD)ruins in the land of Israel are saying, (AE)‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. (AF)But we are many; the land has been given to us as a (AG)possession.’
25 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: (AH)“You eat meat with blood, you (AI)lift up your eyes toward your idols, and (AJ)shed blood. Should you then possess the (AK)land? 26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you (AL)defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’
27 “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely (AM)those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field (AN)I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and (AO)caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 (AP)For I will make the land most desolate, [i]her (AQ)arrogant strength shall cease, and (AR)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’
Hearing and Not Doing
30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they (AS)speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 So (AT)they come to you as people do, they (AU)sit before you as My people, and they (AV)hear your words, but they do not do them; (AW)for with their mouth they show much love, but (AX)their hearts pursue their own gain. 32 Indeed 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 do (AY)not do them. 33 (AZ)And when this comes to pass—surely it will come—then (BA)they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 33:5 Or deliver his soul
- Ezekiel 33:9 Or saved your life
- Ezekiel 33:10 Or waste away
- Ezekiel 33:14 justice
- Ezekiel 33:14 righteousness
- Ezekiel 33:17 Or equitable
- Ezekiel 33:20 Or equitable
- Ezekiel 33:21 Lit. struck down
- Ezekiel 33:28 Lit. pride of her strength
Ezekiel 33
English Standard Version
Ezekiel Is Israel's Watchman
33 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 (A)“Son of man, speak to (B)your people and say to them, If (C)I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their (D)watchman, 3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and (E)blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, (F)his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 (G)He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6 (H)But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, (I)that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.
7 (J)“So you, (K)son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. (L)Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 8 (M)If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, (N)and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, (O)that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 (P)But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, (Q)that person shall die in his iniquity, (R)but you will have delivered your soul.
Why Will You Die, Israel?
10 “And you, (S)son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and (T)we rot away because of them. (U)How then can we live?’ 11 Say to them, (V)As I live, declares the Lord God, (W)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (X)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (Y)for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 (Z)“And you, son of man, say to (AA)your people, (AB)The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, (AC)and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, (AD)and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness[a] when he sins. 13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet (AE)if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 14 Again, (AF)though I say to the wicked, (AG)‘You shall surely die,’ yet (AH)if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 15 if the wicked (AI)restores the pledge, (AJ)gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks (AK)in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 (AL)None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
17 “Yet (AM)your people say, (AN)‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just. 18 (AO)When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. 19 And (AP)when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. 20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, (AQ)I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
Jerusalem Struck Down
21 In the (AR)twelfth year (AS)of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, (AT)a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, (AU)“The city has been struck down.” 22 (AV)Now (AW)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
23 The word of the Lord came to me: 24 (AX)“Son of man, the inhabitants of these (AY)waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, (AZ)‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but (BA)we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’ 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: (BB)You eat flesh with the blood and (BC)lift up your eyes to your idols and (BD)shed blood; shall you then possess the land? 26 (BE)You rely on the sword, (BF)you commit abominations, and (BG)each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land? 27 Say this to them, Thus says the Lord God: (BH)As I live, surely those who are in (BI)the waste places shall fall by (BJ)the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to (BK)the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in (BL)strongholds and in caves shall die by (BM)pestilence. 28 (BN)And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and (BO)her proud might shall come to an end, and (BP)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. 29 (BQ)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.
30 “As for you, (BR)son of man, (BS)your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 (BT)And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for (BU)with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. 32 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and (BV)plays[b] well on an instrument, for (BW)they hear what you say, but they will not do it. 33 (BX)When this comes—and come it will!—(BY)then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 33:12 Hebrew by it
- Ezekiel 33:32 Hebrew like the singing of lustful songs with a beautiful voice and one who plays
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