Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Watchmen - prophets, whose duty it was to announce impending calamities, so as to lead the people to repentance (Isaiah 21:11; Isaiah 58:1; Ezekiel 3:17; Habakkuk 2:1).
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Jeremiah 6:17
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.