¹⁹ But when the wicked ·stop doing evil [turn from sin] and do what is right and ·fair [just], they will live. ²⁰ You still say: ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Israel, I will judge all of you ·by [according to] your own ways.”

The Fall of Jerusalem Explained

²¹ It was in the twelfth year [^Csince King Jehoiachin’s exile (1:2)], on the fifth day of the tenth month [^CJanuary 19, 585 bc]. A ·person who had escaped [survivor; refugee; fugitive] from Jerusalem came to me and said, “Jerusalem has been ·captured [struck down].”