(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,

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30 “As for you, (A)son of man, (B)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.’

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17 “Yet (A)your people say, (B)‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.

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17 “Or (A)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, (B)and I cut off from it man and beast,

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11 And go to the exiles, (A)to your people, and speak to them and say to them, (B)‘Thus says the Lord God,’ (C)whether they hear or refuse to hear.”

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The Shepherd Struck

“Awake, O sword, against (A)my shepherd,
    against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.

(B)“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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27 (A)But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, (B)‘Thus says the Lord God.’ (C)He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

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On your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have set (A)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
    they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
    take no rest,

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The prophet is (A)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet (B)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.

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18 And when (A)your people say to you, (B)‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’

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12 (A)“And you, son of man, say to (B)your people, (C)The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, (D)and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, (E)and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness[a] when he sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:12 Hebrew by it

(A)“So you, (B)son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. (C)Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

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(A)“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say:

(B)“A sword, a sword is sharpened
    and also polished,
10 (C)sharpened for slaughter,
    (D)polished to flash like lightning!

(Or (E)shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, (F)with everything of wood.)[a] 11 So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished (G)to be given into the hand of the slayer. 12 (H)Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. (I)Strike therefore upon your thigh. 13 For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise (J)the rod?”[b] declares the Lord God.

14 “As for you, (K)son of man, prophesy. (L)Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, (M)yes, three times,[c] the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them, 15 that their hearts may melt, and many stumble.[d] At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; (N)it is taken up[e] for slaughter. 16 Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:10 Probable reading; Hebrew The rod of my son despises everything of wood
  2. Ezekiel 21:13 Or For it is a testing; and what if even the rod despises? It shall not be!
  3. Ezekiel 21:14 Hebrew its third
  4. Ezekiel 21:15 Hebrew many stumbling blocks
  5. Ezekiel 21:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered taken up is uncertain

21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (A)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (B)sword, (C)famine, (D)wild beasts, and (E)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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(A)You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God.

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and say, (A)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to (B)the mountains and (C)the hills, to (D)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, (E)and I will destroy your high places.

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12 (A)“Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon;
    (B)make the watch strong;
set up watchmen;
    prepare the ambushes;
(C)for the Lord has both planned and done
    what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

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(A)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
How can it[a] be quiet
    (B)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against (C)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    (D)he has appointed it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:7 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew you

31 The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth,
    for (A)the Lord has an indictment against the nations;
(B)he is entering into judgment with all flesh,
    and the wicked he will put to the sword,
declares the Lord.’

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And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

(A)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
    and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
    and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’

(B)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and (C)the birds of the air (D)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.

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Israel's Irresponsible Leaders

(A)All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
    all you beasts in the forest.
10 (B)His watchmen are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (C)dogs;
    they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.

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For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
    let him announce what he sees.
When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
    riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
    very diligently.”
Then he who saw cried out:[a]
(A)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
    continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
    whole nights.
And behold, here come riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
(B)And he answered,
    (C)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(D)and all the carved images of her gods
    he has shattered to the ground.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion

17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’” 18 So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.” 19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” 20 Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving (A)is like the driving of Jehu (B)the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

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24 Now David (A)was sitting between the two gates, and (B)the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone. 25 The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he drew nearer and nearer. 26 The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.” 27 The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is (C)like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, (D)“He is a good man and comes with good news.”

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