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."
22. Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the refugees came. And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened and I was no longer speechless.
23. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,