Discovery BoxEzekiel 33:2 
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 1 and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
Ezekiel 33:12
Context33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 2 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 3 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 4 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 5 if he sins.’ 6
Ezekiel 33:17
Context33:17 “Yet your people 7 say, ‘The behavior 8 of the Lord is not right,’ 9 when it is their behavior that is not right.
Ezekiel 33:30
Context33:30 “But as for you, son of man, your people 10 (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, 11 ‘Come hear the word that comes 12 from the Lord.’
1 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
2 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
3 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
4 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
5 tn Heb “by it.”
6 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
7 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
8 tn Heb “way.”
9 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
10 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
11 tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”
12 tn Heb “comes out.”
