23Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?


In Context

20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

21 But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die.

22 I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.

23 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?

Ezekiel 18:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:23Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD . Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord GOD: and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:23Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way — And he hath lived?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? said the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?