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.’

[33:2]  ¹ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ² tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  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.

[33:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

[33:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “way.”

[33:17]  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.

[33:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

[33:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”

[33:30]  ¹² tn Heb “comes out.”