16. I will forgive the sins he has committed, and he will live because he has done what is right and good.
17. “And your people say that what I do isn't right! No, it's their way that isn't right.
18. When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.
19. When someone evil gives up sinning and does what is right and good, he has saved his life.
20. But Israel, you say that what I do isn't right. I am going to judge you by what you do.”
21. On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our exile, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came and told me that the city had fallen.
22. The evening before he came, I had felt the powerful presence of the Lord. When the man arrived the next morning, the Lord gave me back the power of speech.
23. The Lord spoke to me.