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16 They will not be punished for any of their sins. They now do what is right and fair, so they will surely live.
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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 "Your people say: 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' But it is their own ways that are not fair.
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“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
18 When the good people stop doing good and do evil, they will die for their evil.
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If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it.
19 But when the wicked stop doing evil and do what is right and fair, they will live.
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And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.
20 You still say: 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' Israel, I will judge all of you by your own ways."
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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 It was in the twelfth year of our captivity, on the fifth day of the tenth month. A person who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "Jerusalem has been captured."
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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!”
22 Now I had felt the power of the Lord on me the evening before. He had made me able to talk again before this person came to me. I could speak; I was not without speech anymore.
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Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.
23 Then the Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
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Then the word of the LORD came to me:
24 "Human, people who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one person, yet he was given the land as his own. Surely the land has been given to us, who are many, as our very own.'
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“Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’
25 So say to them: 'This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with the blood still in it, you ask your idols for help, and you murder people. Should you then have the land as your very own?
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Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?
26 You depend on your sword and do terrible things which I hate. Each of you has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife. So should you have the land?'
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You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’
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