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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 commits iniquity, he shall die for it.
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And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does what is lawful and right, he shall live by it.
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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 man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has fallen."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.