Ezekiel 3:15-27

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there for ^(A)seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them.

¹⁶ Now ^(B)at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁷ “Son of man, I have appointed you as a ^(C)watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, ^(D)warn them from Me. ¹⁸ When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for wrongdoing, but his ^(E)blood I will require from your hand. ¹⁹ However if you have ^(F)warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for wrongdoing, but you have ^(G)saved yourself. ²⁰ Again, ^(H)when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, and I place an ^(I)obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require from your hand. ²¹ However, if you have ^(J)warned ^[a]the righteous person that the righteous is not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall certainly live because he took warning; and you have saved yourself.”

²² Now the hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will ^(K)speak to you.” ²³ So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the ^(L)glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory that ^(M)I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. ²⁴ But the ^(N)Spirit entered me and set me up on my feet; and He spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house. ²⁵ And as for you, son of man, they will ^(O)put ropes ^[b]around you and bind you with them so that you do not go out among them. ²⁶ Moreover, ^(P)I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be unable to speak and will not be a man who reprimands them, since they are a rebellious house. ²⁷ But ^(Q)when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord ^[c]God says:’ The one who hears, let him hear; and the one who refuses, let him refuse; ^(R)for they are a rebellious house.