Ezekiel 33:2-9

2“Son of man, speak to the 1sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, 3and he sees the sword coming upon the land and 2blows on the trumpet and warns the people, 4then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and 3does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his 4blood will be on his own head. 5He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have 5delivered his life. 6But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is 6taken away 7in his iniquity; but his 8blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

7“Now as for you, son of man, I have 910appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a 11message from My mouth and give them 12warning from Me. 8When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will 13surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. 9But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he 14does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have 15delivered your life.