17. “And the children of your people have said, ‘The way of יהוה is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair!
18. “When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, he shall die because of it.
19. “But when the wrong turns from his wrongness and does right and righteousness, he shall live because of it.
20. “And you have said, ‘The way of יהוה is not fair.’ O house of Yisra’ĕl, I shall judge every one of you according to his own ways.”
21. And it came to be in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped from Yerushalayim came to me and said, “The city has been smitten!”
22. And the hand of יהוה came upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth, before he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened. And I was no longer silent.