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Ezekiel 33:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD’s word came to me, saying, "
Ezekiel 33:23
Verse in Context
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21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
22 Now the LORD’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
23 The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
24 “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
25 Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
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Ezekiel 33:1
"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 33:2
"“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman,"
Ezekiel 33:3
"if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,"
Ezekiel 33:4
"then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head."
Ezekiel 33:5
"He heard the sound of the trumpet and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul."
Ezekiel 33:6
"But if the watchman sees the sword come and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’"
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