Ezekiel 3:6–21

⁶not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, ^fhad I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. ⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; ^gfor they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel ^hare impudent and hardhearted. ⁸Behold, ^kI have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against ⁱtheir foreheads. ⁹As ^lan adamant ^mharder than flint have ^kI made thy forehead: ⁿfear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, ^othough they be a rebellious house. ¹⁰Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, ^pall my words that I shall speak unto thee ^breceive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. ¹¹And go, get thee to ^qthem of the captivity, unto ^rthe children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; ^swhether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. ¹²Then ^tthe spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great ^urushing, ^vsaying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord ^wfrom his place. ¹³I heard also the noise of the wings of ^xthe living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of ^xthe wheels over against them, and a noise of a great ^urushing. ¹⁴So ^tthe spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but ^ythe hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

¹⁵Then I came to ^qthem of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt ^zby the river of Chebar, and ^aI sat where they sat, and ^aremained there astonished among them ^bseven days. ^16cAnd it came to pass at the end of ^bseven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^17dSon of man, ^eI have made thee a ^dfwatchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and ^ggive them warning from me. ^18hWhen I say unto the wicked, ⁱThou shalt surely die; and thou ^ggivest him not warning, nor speakest ^gto warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; ^hthe same wicked man ^jshall die in his iniquity; but ^khis blood will I require at thine hand. ^19lYet if thou ^gwarn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, ^jhe shall die in his iniquity; ^lmbut thou ⁿhast delivered thy soul. ²⁰Again, ^oWhen a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and ^pI lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not ^ggiven him warning, he shall die in his sin, and ^ohis righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but ^khis blood will I require at thine hand. ²¹Nevertheless if thou ^gwarn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is ^gwarned; also thou ⁿhast delivered thy soul.