Ezekiel 33:3
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New International Version (©2011)
and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people,

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the watchman sees the enemy coming, he sounds the alarm to warn the people.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet to warn the people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and if he notices that violence is approaching and sounds an alarm to warn the people,

NET Bible (©2006)
He sees the sword coming against the land, blows the trumpet, and warns the people,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If he sees the enemy coming to attack the country, he will blow his horn to warn the people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;

American King James Version
If when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

American Standard Version
if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

Darby Bible Translation
if he see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

English Revised Version
if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

Webster's Bible Translation
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he shall blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

World English Bible
if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

Young's Literal Translation
And he hath seen the sword coming against the land, And hath blown with a trumpet, and hath warned the people,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

33:1-9 The prophet is a watchman to the house of Israel. His business is to warn sinners of their misery and danger. He must warn the wicked to turn from their way, that they may live. If souls perish through his neglect of duty, he brings guilt upon himself. See what those have to answer for, who make excuses for sin, flatter sinners, and encourage them to believe they shall have peace, though they go on. How much wiser are men in their temporal than in their spiritual concerns! They set watchmen to guard their houses, and sentinels to warn of the enemies' approach, but where the everlasting happiness or misery of the soul is at stake, they are offended if ministers obey their Master's command, and give a faithful warning; they would rather perish, listening to smooth things.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If what he seeth the sword come upon the land,.... Or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; as soon as he observes a body of armed men, more or less, marching towards the borders of the land with a manifest intention to enter and invade it:

he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; warn the people by blowing the trumpet, the signal agreed on; by which they would understand that an enemy was at hand, or danger near; or warn them by word of mouth, as well as by the trumpet, where he could do it, and when it was necessary.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. the sword—invaders. An appropriate illustration at the time of the invasion of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar.

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Ezekiel as Israel's Watchman
1Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the sword on a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3If when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; …

1 Corinthians 14:8 Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?
Nehemiah 4:18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
Isaiah 58:1 "Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 3:19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.
Ezekiel 33:9 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.
Hosea 8:1 "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand--