Ezekiel 33:19-21

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁹ But if the wicked turns back from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

²⁰ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not perfect or [even] just. O you house of Israel, I will judge you, every one according to his own ways!

²¹ In the twelfth year of our captivity [in Babylon], in the tenth [month], on the fifth [day] of the month, a man who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me [Ezekiel], saying, The city [Jerusalem] is taken.