Ezekiel 33:1-3

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Ezekiel, Israel’s Sentry

33 The word of the Lord came to me: ² O Mortal, speak to your people and say to them: If I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take one of their number as their sentinel,^{(A) 3} and if the sentinel sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,^(B)