³⁸ the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.^(A) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,^(B) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign^(C) to the Israelites.”

¹⁹ But am I the one they are provoking?^(A) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?^(B)

¹¹ Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.^(A) Turn!^(B) Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’^(C)