13. If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done.
14. And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right—
15. if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.
16. None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.
17. “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
18. If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it.
19. And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.
20. Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”
21. In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”