Ezekiel Chapter 33 verse 17 Holy Bible
Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.
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Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them -- their way is not pondered.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - The way of the Lord is not equal. The prophet now proclaims what he had been taught, perhaps then, without proclaiming it, in Ezekiel 18:25-30. Men are dealt with by the Divine Judge, not as their fathers have Been before them, not even as they themselves have been in times past, but exactly as they are. Where could there be a more perfect rule of equity? The question how far Ezekiel thinks of the judgment itself as final, whether there is the possibility of repentance and pardon after it has fallen, and during its continuance, is not directly answered. He is speaking, we must remember, of a judgment on this side the grave, and therefore what we call the problems of eschatology were not before him. But the language of the document which lies at the basis of his theology (Leviticus 26:41) asserts that if men repented and, "accepted" their earthly punishment, then Jehovah would remember his covenant, and would not destroy them utterly. And his own language as to Sodom and Samaria (Ezekiel 16:53) indicates a leaning to the wider hope. If the problems of the unseen world had been brought before him, we may believe that he would have dealt with them as with those with which he actually came in contact, and that there also his words would have been, "O house of Israel, O sons of men, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?"
