Ezekiel why will you die

Psalm Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Ezekiel Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Deuteronomy ,19 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; …. Proverbs But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Context Crossref Comm Hebrew. Verse Click for Chapter. New International Version Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel?

New Living Translation Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel? English Standard Version Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? Berean Study Bible Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

King James Bible Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Nor am I talking about waking up one morning 18 years from now and ending my life through euthanasia or suicide. Since the s, I have actively opposed legalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

People who want to die in one of these ways tend to suffer not from unremitting pain but from depression, hopelessness, and fear of losing their dignity and control.

The people they leave behind inevitably feel they have somehow failed. The answer to these symptoms is not ending a life but getting help. I have long argued that we should focus on giving all terminally ill people a good, compassionate death—not euthanasia or assisted suicide for a tiny minority.

I am talking about how long I want to live and the kind and amount of health care I will consent to after Americans seem to be obsessed with exercising, doing mental puzzles, consuming various juice and protein concoctions, sticking to strict diets, and popping vitamins and supplements, all in a valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible.

This has become so pervasive that it now defines a cultural type: what I call the American immortal. I reject this aspiration. I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive. For many reasons, 75 is a pretty good age to aim to stop. What are those reasons? We are growing old, and our older years are not of high quality. Since the midth century, Americans have been living longer. In , the life expectancy of an average American at birth was approximately 47 years.

By , it was Today, a newborn can expect to live about 79 years. On average, women live longer than men. In the United States, the gap is about five years. According to the National Vital Statistics Report, life expectancy for American males born in is In the early part of the 20th century, life expectancy increased as vaccines, antibiotics, and better medical care saved more children from premature death and effectively treated infections.

Once cured, people who had been sick largely returned to their normal, healthy lives without residual disabilities. Since , however, increases in longevity have been achieved mainly by extending the lives of people over Rather than saving more young people, we are stretching out old age. Fries, now a professor emeritus of medicine at Stanford, this theory postulates that as we extend our life spans into the 80s and 90s, we will be living healthier lives—more time before we have disabilities, and fewer disabilities overall.

The claim is that with longer life, an ever smaller proportion of our lives will be spent in a state of decline. Compression of morbidity is a quintessentially American idea.

It tells us exactly what we want to believe: that we will live longer lives and then abruptly die with hardly any aches, pains, or physical deterioration—the morbidity traditionally associated with growing old. It promises a kind of fountain of youth until the ever-receding time of death. It is this dream—or fantasy—that drives the American immortal and has fueled interest and investment in regenerative medicine and replacement organs.

But as life has gotten longer, has it gotten healthier? Is 70 the new 50? Not quite. It is true that compared with their counterparts 50 years ago, seniors today are less disabled and more mobile.

But over recent decades, increases in longevity seem to have been accompanied by increases in disability—not decreases. For instance, using data from the National Health Interview Survey, Eileen Crimmins, a researcher at the University of Southern California, and a colleague assessed physical functioning in adults, analyzing whether people could walk a quarter of a mile; climb 10 stairs; stand or sit for two hours; and stand up, bend, or kneel without using special equipment.

The results show that as people age, there is a progressive erosion of physical functioning. More important, Crimmins found that between and , the loss of functional mobility in the elderly increased. In , about 28 percent of American men 80 and older had a functional limitation; by , that figure was nearly 42 percent. And for women the result was even worse: more than half of women 80 and older had a functional limitation. The same is true for functioning loss, an increase in expected years unable to function.

The researchers included not just physical but also mental disabilities such as depression and dementia. How can this be? My father illustrates the situation well. About a decade ago, just shy of his 77th birthday, he began having pain in his abdomen. Like every good doctor, he kept denying that it was anything important. But after three weeks with no improvement, he was persuaded to see his physician.

He had in fact had a heart attack, which led to a cardiac catheterization and ultimately a bypass. Since then, he has not been the same. Once the prototype of a hyperactive Emanuel, suddenly his walking, his talking, his humor got slower. Today he can swim, read the newspaper, needle his kids on the phone, and still live with my mother in their own house.

But everything seems sluggish. That is a fact. I no longer make rounds at the hospital or teach. And, as my father demonstrates, the contemporary dying process has been elongated. Take the example of stroke. The good news is that we have made major strides in reducing mortality from strokes. Between and , the number of deaths from stroke declined by more than 20 percent.

The bad news is that many of the roughly 6. Worse, it is projected that over the next 15 years there will be a 50 percent increase in the number of Americans suffering from stroke-induced disabilities.

Unfortunately, the same phenomenon is repeated with many other diseases. So American immortals may live longer than their parents, but they are likely to be more incapacitated. Does that sound very desirable?

Not to me. Rather, I want them to turn from their ways and live. Change the way you think and act! Turn from your wicked ways! Do you want to die, people of Israel? Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel? Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil ones , for why should you die, house of Israel? But when they turn away from their sins and live, that makes me very happy.

Change your evil ways! Why should you die, people of Israel? Turn back , turn back from your evil ways! Five years ago recommendations were made that were aimed at preventing passengers from being dragged to their deaths. In the last two years there have been over people dragged by subway trains with many resulting in serious injury. They knew that there was a danger and they intended to do something about it, it just wasn't a high enough priority. We know that God's Word commands us to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.

Jesus said, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? We cannot afford to sit back and grow complacent in this matter He is like many Christians today who simply fail to see the seriousness of hell for their friends and loved ones.