Ezekiel 3:18-27

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 1blood I will require from your hand. 19However if you have 2warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for wrongdoing, but you have 3saved yourself. 20Again, 4when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, 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 from your hand. 21However, if you have 6warned 7the 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 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 that 10I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24But the 11Spirit 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 12put ropes 13around you and bind you with them so that you do not go out among them. 26Moreover, 14I 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. 27But 15when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord 16God says:’ The one who hears, let him hear; and the one who refuses, let him refuse; 17for they are a rebellious house.