Ezekiel 3: Ezekiel is sent to preach a hard people, but he will be guilty if not speak.

 In Ezekiel 3 we read about how the prophet was prepared to speak the Lord's message.
He (called "Son of man") had to eat a scroll and speak to the family of Israel. The Lord warns Ezekiel that his people are hardened in their sin, and they won't listen. Despite it, Ezekiel is responsible to speak:


17-19 “Son of man, I’ve made you a watchman for the family of Israel. Whenever you hear me say something, warn them for me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You are going to die,’ and you don’t sound the alarm warning them that it’s a matter of life or death, they will die and it will be your fault. I’ll hold you responsible. But if you warn the wicked and they keep right on sinning anyway, they’ll most certainly die for their sin, but you won’t die. You’ll have saved your life.

20-21 “And if the righteous turn back from living righteously and take up with evil when I step in and put them in a hard place, they’ll die. If you haven’t warned them, they’ll die because of their sins, and none of the right things they’ve done will count for anything—and I’ll hold you responsible. But if you warn these righteous people not to sin and they listen to you, they’ll live because they took the warning—and again, you’ll have saved your life.”

The righteous is very tempted to abandon the Lord because it may seem that the Lord is weaker than the gods of Babylon, or that the Lord abandoned his people, or that the Lord is not strong enough to defend Jerusalem and even the temple. So, the message of Ezekiel must be very important to support the righteous in this turbulent time.