14. And in My saying to the wicked: Thou surely diest, And--he hath turned back from his sin, And hath done judgment and righteousness,
15. (The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth--he doth not die.
16. None of his sin that he hath sinned is remembered to him, Judgment and righteousness he hath done, He doth surely live.
17. And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them--their way is not pondered.
18. In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity--he dieth for it.
19. And in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth.
20. And ye have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, Each according to his ways do I judge you, O house of Israel.'
21. And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year--in the tenth [month], in the fifth of the month--of our removal, come in unto me doth one who is escaped from Jerusalem, saying, `The city hath been smitten.'
22. And the hand of Jehovah hath been unto me in the evening, before the coming in of the escaped one, and He openeth my mouth till the coming in unto me in the morning, and opened is my mouth, and I have not been silent again.
23. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
24. `Son of man, the inhabitants of these wastes on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying: Alone hath been Abraham--and he possesseth the land, and we [are] many--to us hath the land been given for a possession.
25. Therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit!
26. Ye have stood on your sword, Ye have done abomination, Each the wife of his neighbour ye have defiled, And the land ye possess!
27. Thus dost thou say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live--do not they who [are] in the wastes by the sword fall? And they who [are] on the face of the field, To the beast I have given for food, And they who are in strongholds and incaves by pestilence die.