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When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has done he will die.

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has done and does justice and righteousness, he will preserve his life.

Again, he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had done; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his way," declares Lord Yahweh. "Turn back and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

So she brought up one of her cubs;He became a lion,And he learned to tear his prey;He devoured men.

And he walked about among the lions;He became a young lion;He learned to tear his prey;He devoured men.

He knew how to destroy their fortified towersAnd laid waste their cities;And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullnessBecause of the sound of his roaring.

They put him in a cage with hooksAnd brought him to the king of Babylon;They brought him in hunting netsSo that his voice would be heard no moreOn the mountains of Israel.

I said to them, ‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.'

"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says Lord Yahweh, "Go, serve everyone his idols; but after this you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to open the mouth for killing, to lift up the voice with a shout of war, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

"Behold, the princes of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

One has also done what is an abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has violated his sister, his father's daughter.

The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers.

Because of the abundance of his horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of horsemen and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will come down to the ground.

Speak and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,"Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,The great monster that lies in the midst of his canals of the Nile,That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his military force labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his military force had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had labored against it."

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her abundance and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his military force.

I have given him the land of Egypt for his work which he labored because they acted for Me," declares Lord Yahweh.