1. AND THE word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2. Son of man, speak to your people [the Israelite captives in Babylon] and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from among them and make him their watchman,
3. If when he sees the sword coming upon the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
4. Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.