Ezekiel 33:2

33:2 “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

33:12 “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

33:17 “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

33:30 “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.’

Ezekiel 37:18

37:18 When your people ¹³  say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’

Exodus 32:7

32:7 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend, ¹⁴  because your ¹⁵  people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

Deuteronomy 9:12

9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” ¹⁶ 

Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ¹⁷ 

will arise. ¹⁸ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ¹⁹ 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ²⁰  found written in the book,

will escape.

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.”

¹³ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

¹⁴ tn The two imperatives could also express one idea: “get down there.” In other words, “Make haste to get down.”

¹⁵ sn By giving the people to Moses in this way, God is saying that they have no longer any right to claim him as their God, since they have shared his honor with another. This is God’s talionic response to their “These are your gods who brought you up.” The use of these pronoun changes also would form an appeal to Moses to respond, since Moses knew that God had brought them up from Egypt.

¹⁶ tc Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some mss and Smr add עֵגֶל (’egel, “calf”), “a molten calf” or the like (Exod 32:8). Perhaps Moses here omits reference to the calf out of contempt for it.

¹⁷ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “will stand up.”

¹⁹ tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

²⁰ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.