17. “Your people are saying, ‘The Lord isn’t doing what’s right,’ but it is they who are not doing what’s right.
18. For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die.
19. But if wicked people turn from their wickedness and do what is just and right, they will live.
20. O people of Israel, you are saying, ‘The Lord isn’t doing what’s right.’ But I judge each of you according to your deeds.”
21. On January 8, during the twelfth year of our captivity, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”