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1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and you shall say to them, On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take a man from their territory, and set him for their watchman,
3 and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;
4 and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear, and [yet] not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his [own] head.
5 Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him. But the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword comes, and takes a soul from among them, that [soul] is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood [thereof] will I require at the watchman' hand.
7 And you, son of man, I have set you [as] a watchman for the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from My mouth.
8 When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; [if] you speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
9 But if you forewarn the wicked of his way, to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but you have delivered your own soul.
10 And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus have you spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live?
11 Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day in which he errs; and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day in which he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous [that errs] shall not be able to deliver himself.
13 When I say to the righteous, [You shall live; and] he trusts in his righteousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousness shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he die.
14 And when I say to the ungodly, You shall surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgment and justice,
15 and return the pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, [and] walk in the ordinances of life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die.
16 None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered, because he has wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live.
17 Yet the children of your people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight; whereas this their way is not straight.
18 When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.
19 And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them.
20 And this is that which you said, The way of the Lord is [not] straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone for his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth [day] of the month, [that] one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been taken.
22 Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and He opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
24 Son of man, those that inhabit the desolate [places] on the land of Israel say, Abraham was [only] one, and he possessed the land; and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.
25 [This translation omits this verse.]
26 [This translation omits this verse.]
27 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: [As] I live, surely those that are in the desolate places shall fall by the sword, and those that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and those that are in the fortified [cities] and those that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.
28 And I will make the land desolate, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.
29 And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desolate, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have done.
30 And [as for] you, son of man, the children of your people are they that speak concerning you by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the [words] that proceed from the Lord.
31 They approach you as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them; for [there is] falsehood in their mouth, and their heart [goes] after their pollutions.
32 And you are to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear your words, but they will not do them.
33 But whenever it shall come [to pass], they will say, Behold, it is come; and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.
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