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Ezekiel 33:11

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. To meet the Jews' cry of despair in , Ezekiel here cheers them by the assurance that God has no pleasure in their death, but that they should repent and live (). A yearning tenderness manifests itself here, notwithstanding all their past sins; yet with it a holiness that abates nothing of its demands for the honour of God's authority. God's righteousness is vindicated, as in Ezekiel 3:18 and Ezekiel 18:1, by the statement that each should be treated with the closest adaptation of God's justice to his particular case.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 33:11. _AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD GOD, I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN_ _THE DEATH OF THE WICKED_] From this to the twentieth verse inclusive is nearly the same with Ezekiel 18:3 c., on which I w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48) Chapter S 33-34 A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd _ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS. LIVE, he. Figure of speech Delete. App-6. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle, See note on Ezekiel 2:4. TURN YE. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_. App-6. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHET AND THE INDIVIDUAL This passage combines an expanded repetition of Ezekiel 3:17 with a condensed repetition of Ezekiel 18:5. The prophet is a watchman, responsible for warning his people o...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE NO PLEASURE. — Comp. Ezekiel 18:28; Ezekiel 18:32. Ezekiel meets the despair of the people by the assurance, long before given in another connection, that the Creator and Father of all can have...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֱמֹ֨ר אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם חַי ־אָ֣נִי ׀ נְאֻ֣ם ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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