Israel’s Warning

¹⁶ ·After [^LAt the end of] seven days the ·Lord spoke his word [^Lword of the Lord came] to me again. He said, ¹⁷ “·Human [^TSon of man; 2:1], I ·now make [or have made] you a watchman for [^Lthe house of] Israel. Any time you hear a word from my mouth, warn them for me. ¹⁸ ·When [or If] I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ but you don’t speak out to warn them to stop their evil ways, they will die ·in their sin [for their iniquity]. But I will hold you ·responsible [accountable] for their death. ¹⁹ But if you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or their ·evil ways [wicked lifestyle], they will die because of their sin. But you will have saved your ·life [soul].

²⁰ “Again, ·those who do right [the righteous] may turn away from ·doing good [righteousness] and ·do evil [commit iniquity/injustice]. If I ·make something bad happen to [^Llay a stumbling block before] them, they will die. Because you have not warned them, they will die because of their sin, and the ·good [righteous things] they did will not be remembered. But I will hold you ·responsible [accountable] for their deaths. ²¹ But if you have warned ·those good people [the righteous] not to sin, and they do not sin, they will surely live, because they ·believed [took; received] the warning. And you will have saved your ·life [soul].”