Ezekiel 33:2

Modern English Version

Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them: If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them and set him for their watchman,

Cross References

Isaiah 62:6

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace day or night. You who remind the Lord, do not keep silent;

Jeremiah 12:12

The destroyers have come upon all high places through the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No one shall have peace.

Jeremiah 25:31

A noise shall come even to the remote parts of the earth, for the Lord has a controversy with the nations; He shall enter into judgment with all flesh. He shall give those who are wicked to the sword, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:12

Set up the standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes. For the Lord has both devised and done that which He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Ezekiel 11:8

You have feared the sword, so I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, “Let the sword go through the land and cut off man and beast from it,”

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send My four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it.

Ezekiel 3:11

Go to the captives, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, “Thus says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 3:27

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord God.” He who hears, let him hear. And he who refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 33:1

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 33:12

Therefore you, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of a righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

Ezekiel 33:17

Yet the sons of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not right,” when their way is not right.

Ezekiel 33:30

As for you, son of man, the sons of your people are talking about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses; and they speak to one another, each saying to his brother, “Come now, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.”

Ezekiel 33:7

Now as for you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them from Me.

Ezekiel 37:18

When the sons of your people speak to you, saying, “Will you not show us what you mean by these things?”

Ezekiel 6:3

and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim is a prophet for my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring a sword upon you that shall extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and the man of My association,” says the Lord of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter. I will turn My hand against the small ones.