Léctio libri Ezechiélis prophétæ (33,7-9)
Hæc dicit Dominus: Te, fili hóminis, speculatórem dedi dómui Israel. Áudiens ergo ex ore meo sermónem, commonébis eos ex me. Si, me dicénte ad ímpium: Ímpie, morte moriéris, non fúeris locútus, ut se custódiat ímpius a via sua, ipse ímpius in iniquitáte sua moriétur, sánguinem autem eíus de manu tua requíram. Si autem commonúeris ímpium, ut a viis suis convertátur, et ille non fúerit convérsus a via sua, ipse in iniquitáte sua moriétur, porro tu ánimam tuam liberásti.
Thus says the Lord: thou son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: hearing therefore the word from my mouth, thou shalt tell them from me. If when I say to the impious: O thou impious, dying thou shalt die: thou speak not that the impious may keep himself from his way: the impious himself shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at thy hand. But if thou telling the impious, that he convert from his ways, he convert not from his way: he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.
