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            <div class="label">31</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Pharaoh as a Felled Cedar of Lebanon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.31.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Who can be compared with you in majesty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.31.3"><span class="content">with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.31.3"><span class="content">it towered on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.31.3"><span class="content">its top above the thick foliage.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The waters nourished it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">deep springs made it grow tall;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">their streams flowed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">all around its base</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">and sent their channels</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">to all the trees of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So it towered higher</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="content">than all the trees of the field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="content">its boughs increased</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="content">and its branches grew long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="content">spreading because of abundant waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All the birds of the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">nested in its boughs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">all the animals of the wild</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">gave birth under its branches;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">all the great nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">lived in its shade.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It was majestic in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.31.7"><span class="content">with its spreading boughs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.31.7"><span class="content">for its roots went down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.31.7"><span class="content">to abundant waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The cedars in the garden of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">could not rival it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">nor could the junipers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">equal its boughs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">nor could the plane trees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">compare with its branches&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">no tree in the garden of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">could match its beauty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I made it beautiful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.31.9"><span class="content">with abundant branches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.31.9"><span class="content">the envy of all the trees of Eden</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.31.9"><span class="content">in the garden of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword, along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.31.18"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">32</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">A Lament Over Pharaoh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You are like a lion among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">you are like a monster in the seas</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">thrashing about in your streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">churning the water with your feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">and muddying the streams.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;With a great throng of people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">I will cast my net over you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">and they will haul you up in my net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will throw you on the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">and hurl you on the open field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">and all the animals of the wild gorge themselves on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will spread your flesh on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="content">and fill the valleys with your remains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will drench the land with your flowing blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">all the way to the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">and darken their stars;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">I will cover the sun with a cloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the shining lights in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">I will darken over you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">I will bring darkness over your land,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will trouble the hearts of many peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">when I bring about your destruction among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">among</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">bring you into captivity among the nations, / to</span></span></span><span class="content"> lands you have not known.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">and their kings will shudder with horror because of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">when I brandish my sword before them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">On the day of your downfall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">each of them will tremble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">every moment for his life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The sword of the king of Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">will come against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will cause your hordes to fall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">by the swords of mighty men&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">the most ruthless of all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">They will shatter the pride of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">and all her hordes will be overthrown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will destroy all her cattle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">from beside abundant waters</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">no longer to be stirred by the foot of man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">or muddied by the hooves of cattle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I will let her waters settle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">and make her streams flow like oil,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When I make Egypt desolate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">and strip the land of everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">when I strike down all who live there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Egypt&#8217;s Descent Into the Realm of the Dead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">From within the realm of the dead the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, &#8216;They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Their graves are in the depths of the pit and her army lies around her grave. All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.32.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Elam is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.32.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Meshek and Tubal are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:27 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">warriors who were uncircumcised</span></span></span><span class="content"> who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war&#8212;their swords placed under their heads and their shields</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:27 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">punishment</span></span></span><span class="content"> resting on their bones&#8212;though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.32.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.32.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Edom is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;All the princes of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pharaoh&#8212;he and all his army&#8212;will see them and he will be consoled for all his hordes that were killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Renewal of Ezekiel&#8217;s Call as Watchman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: &#8216;When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone&#8217;s life, that person&#8217;s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When I say to the wicked, &#8216;You wicked person, you will surely die,&#8217; and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, say to the Israelites, &#8216;This is what you are saying: &#8220;Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in</span></span></span><span class="content"> them. How then can we live?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, son of man, say to your people, &#8216;If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person&#8217;s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person&#8217;s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And if I say to a wicked person, &#8216;You will surely die,&#8217; but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil&#8212;that person will surely live; they will not die. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet your people say, &#8216;The way of the Lord is not just.&#8217; But it is their way that is not just. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Yet you Israelites say, &#8216;The way of the Lord is not just.&#8217; But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem&#8217;s Fall Explained</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, &#8220;The city has fallen!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, &#8216;Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.33.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.33.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor&#8217;s wife. Should you then possess the land?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.33.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.33.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say this to them: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.33.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.33.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.33.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.33.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, &#8216;Come and hear the message that has come from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.33.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.33.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.33.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.33.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;When all this comes true&#8212;and it surely will&#8212;then they will know that a prophet has been among them.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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