Ezekiel 3:14–22

¹⁴So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the ²heat of my spirit; but ^mthe hand of the Lord was strong upon me. ¹⁵Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and ⁿI sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Ezekiel is a Watchman

¹⁶Now it ^ocame to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^17p“Son of man, I have made you ^qa watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them ^rwarning from Me: ¹⁸When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man ^sshall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. ¹⁹Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; ^tbut you have delivered your soul.

²⁰“Again, when a ^urighteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. ²¹Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul.”

^22vThen the hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out ^winto the plain, and there I shall talk with you.”