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"Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just.
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When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
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And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
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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."
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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."