Ezekiel 33:1-27
speak <01696> [speak.]
bring ... sword .... land ....... land ... one <02719 0776 0259 0935> [When I bring the sword upon a land. Heb. A land when I bring a sword upon her.]
make <05414> [set.]
blows <08628> [he blow.]
[Am 3.6 1Co 14.8]
hears <08085> [whosoever heareth. Heb. he that hearing heareth.]
death <01818> [his blood.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
himself <01818> [his blood.]
warning ............. warning <02094> [But.]
blow <08628> [and blow.]
takes ........ swept away <03947> [he is.]
<01818> [his blood.]
I ... made you <05414> [I have.]
hear <08085> [thou shalt.]
wicked ... wicked ............. wicked ...... wicked man ....... but <07563> [O wicked.]
about <01696> [if thou.]
wicked ... wicked ............. wicked ...... wicked man ....... but <07563> [that wicked.]
warn <02094> [if thou.]
change ........ change <07725> [if he.]
saved <05337> [thou hast.]
rebellious <06588> [If our.]
The impenitent Jews seem to have charged the prophet's messages with inconsistency: for whilst he warned them to repent, and assured the penitent of forgiveness, he also predicted that the people "would pine away in their transgressions." The prediction, however, merely implied that God foresaw that the people in general would be impenitent, though some individuals would repent and be pardoned.
live <02421> [how.]
surely <02416> [As I live.]
pleasure <02654> [I have.]
change ....... back ... back .... evil <07725 07451> [turn ye.]
say <0559> [say.]
righteousness <06666> [The righteousness.]
wickedness <07564> [as for.]
righteous .......................... righteous <06662> [neither.]
confident <0982> [if he.]
die <04191> [he shall die.]
must certainly die <04191> [Thou shalt.]
turns from <07725> [if he.]
just ... right <04941 06666> [that which is lawful and right. Heb. judgment and justice.]
returns <07725> [restore.]
"The sin is not forgiven, unless that which is taken away be restored," says Augustine.
pays <07999> [give.]
<01980> [walk.]
certainly live ..... die <02421 04191> [he shall.]
say <0559> [Yet.]
judge <08199> [I will.]
<08147> [in the twelfth.]
This was on Wednesday, January 25, A.M. 3416 or 3417. According to the date here given, this escaped Jew did not come to the prophet, with intelligence of Jerusalem being smitten, till about eighteen months after the event; but instead of the "twelfth year," eight MSS. and the Syriac read the eleventh.
refugee <06412> [one.]
city <05892> [The city.]
This was the very message which God had promised to the prophet.
hand <03027> [the hand.]
mouth .............. mouth <06310> [and my.]
living <03427> [they that.]
The small remnant which continued in the land under Gedaliah, after the desolation of Jerusalem, flattered themselves, notwithstanding all their crimes, that they should inherit the whole land.
ruins <02723> [wastes.]
Abraham <085> [Abraham.]
many <07227> [but we.]
eat <0398> [Ye eat.]
pray <05375> [lift up.]
shed <08210> [and shed.]
possess <03423> [shall ye.]
rely <05975> [stand.]
commit <06213> [work.]
defiles <02930> [and ye.]
possess <03423> [and shall.]
ruins <02723> [surely.]
give <05414> [will I.]
food <0398> [to be devoured. Heb. to devour him. in the caves.]