33And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^a ²“Son of man,^b speak to your people,^c and you must say to them, ‘A land, if I bring over it a sword and the people of the land take a man, one from their number, and they appoint him for them as a watchman, ³and he sees the sword coming against the land, and he blows on the horn and he warns the people, ⁴and anyone who listens^d hears the sound of the horn and he does not take warning^e and the sword comes and it takes him, his blood will be on his own head. ⁵For he heard the sound of the horn and he did not take warning; his blood will be on him. But if he took warning, he saved his life. ⁶And as for the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and he does not blow^f the horn, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and it takes their lives,^g he will be taken through his guilt, but his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.’

⁷“And you, son of man,^h I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; if you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me. ⁸When I sayⁱ to the wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will certainly die,’ and you did not speak^j to warn the wicked from his way, he, the wicked, will die by his guilt, but his blood I will seek from your hand. ⁹But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn^k from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
cLiterally “the children of your people”
dLiterally “the listening”
eLiterally “not he takes warning”
fLiterally “and not he blows on”
gLiterally “it takes from them a life”
hOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
iLiterally “At my saying”
jLiterally “and not you spoke”
kLiterally “and not he turns”