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...tell your people: `When I bring an army against a country, and the people of that land choose a watchman, and when he sees the army coming, and blows the alarm to warn them, then anyone who hears the alarm and refuses to heed it--well, if he dies the fault is his own. For he heard the warning and wouldn't listen; the fault is his. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn't sound the alarm and warn the people, he is responsible for their deaths. They will die in their sins, but I will charge the watchman with their deaths. So with you, son of dust. I have appointed you as a watchman for the people; therefore listen to what I say and warn them for me. When I say to the wicked, `O wicked man, you will die!' and you don't tell them what I say, so that he does not repent--that wicked person will die in his sins, but I will hold you responsible for his death. But if you warn him to repent and he doesn't, he will die in his sin, and you will not be responsible.
Ezekiel 33:2-9