18:24. But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die. 18:25. And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse? 18:26. For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and comitteth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die. 18:27. And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive. 18:28. Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die. 18:29. And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways perverse? 18:30. Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. 18:31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel? 18:32. For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live. Ezechiel Chapter 19 The parable of the young lions, and of the vineyard that is wasted. 19:1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 19:2. And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? Thy mother the lioness... Jerusalem. 19:3. And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. One of her whelps... Viz., Joachaz, alias Sellum. 19:4. And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt. 19:5. But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion. One of her young lions... Joakim. 19:6. And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. 19:7. He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring. 19:8. And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken. 19:9. And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.