Ezequiel 33:10

10 Mensaje del centinela
»Hijo de hombre, da este mensaje al pueblo de Israel: “Ustedes dicen: ‘Nuestros pecados son una carga pesada; ¡nos consumimos poco a poco! ¿Cómo sobreviviremos?’.

Ezequiel 33:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 33:10

Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel,
&c.] Such of them as were with him in the captivity: thus ye speak, saying; reasoning and arguing within and among themselves; which the Lord heard, and made known to the prophet, who is bid to repeat it to them in order to give an answer: if our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in
them;
as the prophet said they should, ( Ezekiel 24:23 ) , with which he had concluded his prophecies to them; and now they take it up, and argue against themselves, and against him; if our sins and transgressions are laid upon us, and we must answer for them; if the guilt of them is charged on us, and they are unexpiated and unatoned for; and the punishment of them is, or will be, inflicted on us, and we do, and must pine away, and be consumed in them, and by them: how should we then live?
as thou promisest us upon repentance; it is all over with us; there is no hope for us; what signify our repentance, or thy promises of life unto us? these things can never hang together, that we should live, and yet pine away in our sins; so that these are the words of persons both despairing, and making the prophet to say things opposite and contradictory, and which would not admit of a reconciliation; see ( Ezekiel 37:11 ) .

Ezequiel 33:10 In-Context

8 Si yo anuncio que unos malvados de cierto morirán y tú no les dices que cambien su manera de vivir, entonces ellos morirán en sus pecados y te haré a ti responsable de su muerte.

9 En cambio, si les adviertes que se arrepientan y no lo hacen, morirán en sus pecados, pero tú te habrás salvado.

10 Mensaje del centinela
»Hijo de hombre, da este mensaje al pueblo de Israel: “Ustedes dicen: ‘Nuestros pecados son una carga pesada; ¡nos consumimos poco a poco! ¿Cómo sobreviviremos?’.

11 Tan cierto como que yo vivo, dice el Señor
Soberano, no me complace la muerte de los perversos. Solo quiero que se aparten de su conducta perversa para que vivan. ¡Arrepiéntanse! ¡Apártense de su maldad, oh pueblo de Israel! ¿Por qué habrían de morir?”.

12 »Hijo de hombre, da este mensaje a tu pueblo: “La conducta recta de los justos no los salvará si se entregan al pecado, ni la mala conducta de los malvados los destruirá si se arrepienten y abandonan sus pecados.