Ezekiel 3:17-26

17“Son of man, I have appointed you as a 1watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, 2warn them from Me. 18When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for wrongdoing, but his 3blood I will require from your hand. 19However if you have 4warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for wrongdoing, but you have 5saved yourself. 20Again, 6when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, and I place an 7obstacle 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 from your hand. 21However, if you have 8warned 9the righteous person that the righteous is not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall certainly live because he took warning; and you have saved yourself.”

22Now the hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will 10speak to you.” 23So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the 11glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory that 12I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24But the 13Spirit entered me and set me up on my feet; and He spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25And as for you, son of man, they will 14put ropes 15around you and bind you with them so that you do not go out among them. 26Moreover, 16I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be unable to speak and will not be a man who reprimands them, since they are a rebellious house.