Ezekiel, Israel’s Watchman

33 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, speak to the ^(A)sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, ³ and he sees the sword coming upon the land and ^(B)blows on the trumpet and warns the people, ⁴ then ^[a]he who hears the sound of the trumpet and ^(C)does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his ^(D)blood will be on his own head. ⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have ^(E)escaped with his life. ⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is ^(F)taken away ^[b]in his iniquity; but his ^(G)blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

⁷ “Now as for you, son of man, I have ^(H)given you as a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a word from My mouth and give them ^(I)warning from Me. ⁸ When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will ^(J)surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. ⁹ But as for you, if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he ^(K)does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have ^(L)delivered your life.