018:026 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die. 018:027 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 018:028 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 018:029 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? 018:030 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? 018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live. 019:001 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 019:002 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs. 019:003 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. 019:006 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 019:007 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring. 019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 019:009 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. 019:010 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 019:011 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. 019:012 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.