A Warning to Israel

At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:

"Son of man,
I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel;
so hear the word I speak and give them warning from Me.
When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,'
and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him
from his evil ways in order to save his life,
that wicked man will die for his sin,
and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
But if you do warn the wicked man
and he does not turn
from his wickedness or from his evil ways,
he will die for his sin;
but you will have saved yourself.

"Again, when a righteous man
turns from his righteousness and does evil,
and I put a stumbling block before him,
he will die.
Since you did not warn him,
he will die for his sin.
The righteous things he did will not be remembered,
and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
But if you do warn the righteous man not to sin
and he does not sin,
he will surely live because he took warning,
and you will have saved yourself.

The hand of the Lord was upon me there,
and He said to me,
"Get up and go out to the plain,
and there I will speak to you."
So I got up and went out to the plain.
And the glory of the Lord was standing there,
like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River,
and I fell face-down.

(Ezekiel 3:16-23)