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1059 Made watchman. Blood responsibility EZEKIEL 3:4-21
4 And he continued saying to
me: “Son of man, go, enter in
among the house a of Israel, and
you must speak with my words
to them. 5 For it is not to a
people who are unintelligible in
language b or heavy of tongue c
that you are being sent—to the
house of Israel, 6 not to numerous
peoples unintelligible in
language or heavy in tongue,
whose words you cannot hear
understandingly. d If it was to
them that I had sent you, those
very ones would listen to you. e
7 But as for the house of Israel,
they will not want to listen to
you, for they are not wanting to
listen to me; f because all those of
the house of Israel are hardheaded
and hardhearted. g 8 Look! I
have made your face exactly as
hard as their faces h and your
forehead exactly as hard as their
foreheads. i 9 Like a diamond,
harder than flint, j I have made
your forehead. You must not be
afraid of them, k and you must
not be struck with terror at their
faces, l for they are a rebellious
house.” m
10 And he went on to say to
me:“Sonofman,allmywords
that I shall speak to you, take
into your heart n and hear with
your own ears. 11 And go, enter
in among the exiled people, o
among the sons of your people,
and you must speak to them
and say to them, ‘This is what
the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has
said,’ regardless of whether they
hear or they refrain.” p
12 And a spirit proceeded to
bear me along q and I began to
hear behind me the sound of a
great rushing: r “Blessed be the
glory of Jehovah from his place.” s
13 And there was the sound of
the wings of the living creatures
that were closely touching
each other, t and the sound
of the wheels close beside them, u
and the sound of a great rushing.
14 And the spirit bore me
CHAP. 3
a Mt 10:6
Mt 15:24
b Ps 81:5
Isa 33:19
c De 28:49
Isa 28:11
d Jer 5:15
e Jon 3:5
Mt 11:21
Mt 12:41
Ac 13:46
f 1Sa 8:7
Jer 25:7
Lu 10:16
g Ex 34:9
Ne 9:16
Jer 3:3
Jer 5:3
Jer 7:26
Eze 2:4
h Jer 1:18
i Isa 50:7
Jer 15:20
Mic 3:8
j Isa 50:7
Zec 7:12
k Pr 29:25
Isa 41:10
l Jer 1:18
Jer 17:18
m Eze 24:3
n Ps 119:11
Lu 8:15
o 2Ki 24:14
p Eze 2:5
Ac 20:26
q 1Ki 18:12
2Ki 2:16
Eze 8:3
Ac 8:39
r Ac 2:2
s Eze 11:22
t Eze 1:24
u Eze 10:16
Second Col.
a Eze 8:3
b 1Ki 18:46
2Ki 3:15
c Jer 29:5
d Ps 137:1
Eze 1:3
Eze 43:3
e Jer 23:9
f Isa 21:8
Isa 62:6
Jer 6:17
Eze 33:7
g Isa 58:1
h 2Ki 1:4
i Ac 2:40
1Ti 4:16
j Pr 14:32
Eze 33:4
Ro 6:23
k Ge 9:5
Eze 33:8
l 2Ki 17:13
m Ro 2:6
n Isa 49:4
Jer 45:5
Eze 33:9
Ac 18:6
Ac 20:26
o 2Ch 24:18
Eze 18:24
Eze 33:12
p De 13:3
1Pe 2:8
q Eze 18:26
Eze 33:18
r Eze 33:12
along a and proceeded to take me,
so that I went bitterly in the
rage of my spirit, and the hand
of Jehovah upon me was strong. b
15 So I entered in among the exiled
people at Tel-abib, who were
dwelling c by the river Chebar, d
and I began to dwell where they
were dwelling; and I kept dwelling
there for seven days, stunned
in the midst of them. e
16 And it came about at the
end of seven days that the word
of Jehovah proceeded to occur to
me, saying:
17 “Son of man, a watchman
is what I have made you to the
house of Israel, f and you must
hear from my mouth speech and
youmustwarnthemfromme. g
18 When I say to someone wicked,
‘You will positively die,’ h and
you do not actually warn him
and speak in order to warn the
wicked one from his wicked way
to preserve him alive, i he being
wicked, in his error he will die, j
but his blood I shall ask back
from your own hand. k 19 But
as for you, in case you have
warned someone wicked l and he
does not actually turn back from
his wickedness and from his
wicked way, he himself for his error
will die; m but as for you,
you will have delivered your own
soul. n 20 And when someone
righteous turns back from his
righteousness o and actually does
injustice and I must put a stumbling
block before him, p he himself
will die because you did not
warn him. For his sin he will die, q
and his righteous acts that he
did will not be remembered, r but
his blood I shall ask back from
your own hand. s 21 And as for
you, in case you have warned
someone righteous that the righteous
one should not sin, t and
he himself does not actually sin,
he will without fail keep on living
s Le 19:17; Eze 33:6; Heb 13:17; t 1Sa 25:33; Ac
20:31.