Ezekiel 20:33–44

The Lord Will Restore Israel

³³ⁱ“As I live, declares the Lord God, ^msurely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and ⁿwith wrath poured out I will be king over you. ^34oI will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. ^35pAnd I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, ^qand there I will enter into judgment with you ^rface to face. ^36sAs I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God. ³⁷I will make you ^tpass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. ^38uI will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. ^vI will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, ^wbut they shall not enter the land of Israel. ^xThen you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: ^yGo serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; ^zbut my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

^40a“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord God, there ^ball the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. ^cThere I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings. ⁴¹As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when ^dI bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And ^eI will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. ^42fAnd you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that ^gI swore to give to your fathers. ^43hAnd there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, ^hand you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed. ⁴⁴And you shall know that I am the Lord, ⁱwhen I deal with you for my name’s sake, ^jnot according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”