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30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

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30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one[a] according to his ways,” declares[b] the Lord Yahweh. “Repent[c] and turn around from all of your transgression, and it will not be as a stumbling block of iniquity to you. 31 Throw away from yourselves[d] all of your transgressions that you committed,[e] and make for yourselves[f] a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying,” declares[g] the Lord Yahweh. “And so repent[h] and live!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:30 Hebrew “man”
  2. Ezekiel 18:30 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Ezekiel 18:30 Or “Turn/Return”
  4. Ezekiel 18:31 Literally “from on you”
  5. Ezekiel 18:31 Hebrew “committed with them”
  6. Ezekiel 18:31 Literally “to you”
  7. Ezekiel 18:32 Literally “declaration of”
  8. Ezekiel 18:32 Or “turn/return”