so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

None of the sins he has committed will be counted against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the sovereign Lord. It is the day I have spoken about.