"For your part, son of man, I have set you as a watchman for Israel; and when you hear MY word, you must give them MY warning. When I say to the wicked: 'Wicked man, you shall die for sure,' if you do not warn the wicked man to turn from his ways, he will die because of his sin; but I will also call you to account for his blood. If you warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin; but you, yourself, will be saved.
Son of man, you know the people of Israel say: 'We are wasting away because of our sin, and our wrongdoing is weighing us down. How can we live?' Say to them: As I live, word of YAHWEH, I do not want the wicked to die, but, rather, that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! turn from your wicked ways! Why, O Israel, should you die?" - Ezekiel 33:7-11
(In time of misfortune, the wicked lose all hope; but the prophet, who always announced misery, raises his voice to encourage conversion and to share GOD's thinking: I do not want the wicked to die but rather that they turn from their ways and live!... Why, O Israel, should you die?)
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