17. "Yet your fellow citizens say, 'The way of the Lord is not right,' when it is their own way that is not right.
18. When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
19. But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
20. Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
21. Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, "The city has been taken."