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)”