Ezekiel 3:18-27

18When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his 1blood I will require at your hand. 19Yet if you have 2warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have 3delivered yourself. 20Again, 4when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an 5obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21However, if you have 6warned 7the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”

22The hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will 8speak to you.” 23So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the 9glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory which 10I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24The 11Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself up in your house. 25As for you, son of man, they will 12put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them. 26Moreover, 13I will make your tongue stick to 14the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house. 27But 15when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord 16God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; 17for they are a rebellious house.