Ezekiel 33:11 meaning and explanation

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Ezekiel 33:11, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks these words through Ezekiel to the exiles in Babylon, who had just heard that Jerusalem had fallen. In verse 10 the people complain that their sins are crushing them and ask how they can possibly live.

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