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but thou hast delivered thy soul.
10
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel;
Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins
be
upon us, and we pine away in them,
how should we then live?
11
Say unto them,
As
I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in
the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your
evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
12
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the
children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth
from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his
righteousness
in the day that
he sinneth.
13
When I shall say to the righteous,
that
he shall surely live; if he trust to his own
righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his
iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
14
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou
shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15
If
the wicked restore
the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity;
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned
unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17
Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their
way is not equal.
18
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby.
19
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall live thereby.
20
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one
after his ways.
21
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month,
in the fifth
day
of
the month,
that
one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
22
Now the hand of the L
ORD
was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had
opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no
more dumb.
23
Then the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
24
Son of man, they that inhabit
those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but
we
are
many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye
possess the land?
26
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
27
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD;
As
I live, surely they that
are
in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that
is
in the open
field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die
of the pestilence.
28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease;
and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
29
Then shall they know
that I
am
the L
ORD
, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which
they have committed.
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