³³ Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ ³⁴ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

^35 (A)“So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother ^[a]his trespasses.”

²⁵ “Yet you say, ^(A)‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? ^26 (B)When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. ²⁷ Again, ^(C)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. ²⁸ Because he ^(D)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ^29 (E)Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?

^30 (F)“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. ^(G)“Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.

The Blessing and Suffering of the Godly

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

³² then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, ^(A)condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.