Ezekiel 17:20Easy To Read VersionI will set my trap, and he will be caught in it. And I will bring him to Babylon and I will punish him in that place. I will punish him because he turned against me. See the chapter |
\{The Lord says,\}\par “Sometimes a lion will come from\par the thick bushes near the Jordan River.\par That lion will walk into the fields\par where people have their animals.\par \{and the animals will all run away.\}\par I will be like that lion,\par I will chase Babylon from its land.\par Who should I choose to do this?\par There is no person like me.\par There is no person that can challenge me.\par \{So I will do it.\}\par No shepherd will come to chase me away.\par I will chase away the people of Babylon.”\par
“Now, maybe a good man might stop being good. He might change his life and begin to do all the terrible things that bad person had done in the past. (That bad person changed, so he can live!) So if that good person changes and becomes bad, then God won’t remember all the good things that person did. God will remember that that man turned against him and began to sin. So that man will die because of his sin.”