17 “And I raised up over YOU people* watchmen,+ ‘Pay attention to the sound of the horn!’”+ But they kept saying: “We are not going to pay attention.”+

6 For there exists a day when the lookouts in the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im will actually call out, ‘Rise up, O men, and let us go up to Zion, to Jehovah our God.’”+

7 “Now as regards you, O son of man, a watchman is what I have made you to the house of Israel,+ and at my mouth you must hear [the] word and give them warning from me.+