Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

a blessing, if you hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear; for they are a provoking house.

I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall threaten them from Me.

how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but declared it to you, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Therefore I testify to you this very day, that I am innocent of all blood.

For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

But they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

but they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.

And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]:

But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to My law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by His Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.