14. Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
15. if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
16. None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
17. “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.
18. When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
19. And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
20. Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
21. In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down.”
22. Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
23. The word of the Lord came to me:
24. “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’