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Ezekiel 33:19-21
EasyEnglish Bible
Ezekiel 33:19-21
EasyEnglish Bible
19 Also, if a wicked person stops doing bad things and he starts to do things that are good and right, he will continue to live. He deserves to live because he has changed. 20 But you Israelites continue to say, “The Lord is not fair!” But I will judge each of you in a way that you deserve for the things that you have done.’
Ezekiel hears news about Jerusalem
21 This is what happened 12 years after we had come to Babylon as prisoners. It was on the 5th day of the 10th month of that year. A man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me in Babylon.[a] He said, ‘Enemies have taken Jerusalem for themselves.’
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- 33:21 It had probably taken this man many months to bring the news from Jerusalem to Babylon. It was a long and difficult journey for him. See 2 Kings 25:3-10; Jeremiah 39:2-8; 52:4-14.
Ezekiel 33:19-21
New International Version
Ezekiel 33:19-21
New International Version
19 And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.(A) 20 Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”(B)
Jerusalem’s Fall Explained
21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped(C) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!(D)”
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