Ezekiel 3:14-19

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of YAHWEH rested powerfully upon me. The Spirit took me to Tel Abib, the very place where the Jewish exiles were living beside the River Chebar. I remained there with them for a week, dumbfounded and overwhelmed by what I had seen and heard. Afterward, YAHWEH spoke the following words to me: “Son of man, I am appointing you as a watchman for the people of Israel. When you hear me speak to you, give them my warning. If I say to wicked people, ‘You are headed toward certain death,’ and you fail to give them warning by not speaking up to warn the evil ones against their evil courses so as to keep them alive, then the wicked ones will die for their sinful deeds. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths. But if you do warn the wicked and they keep sinning anyway, they’ll most certainly die for their sin, but you won’t die. You’ll have saved your life.