Ezekiel 20:33–44

God Will Restore Israel to Her Land

³³“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “surely with a mighty hand and with an ^aoutstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be ^bking over you.

³⁴“I will ^abring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with ^bwrath poured out;

³⁵and I will bring you into the ^awilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

³⁶“As I ^aentered into judgment with your fathers in the ^bwilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.

³⁷“I will make you ^apass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

³⁸and I will ^apurge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will ^bnot enter the ¹land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God, “^aGo, serve everyone his idols; ¹but later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will ^bprofane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

⁴⁰“For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “there the whole house of Israel, ^aall of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will ^baccept them and there I will ¹seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.

⁴¹“¹As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I ^abring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will prove Myself ^bholy among you in the sight of the nations.

⁴²“And ^ayou will know that I am the Lord, ^bwhen I bring you into the land of Israel, into the ^cland which I swore to give to your forefathers.

⁴³“There you will ^aremember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will ^bloathe yourselves in your own ¹sight for all the evil things that you have done.

⁴⁴“Then ^ayou will know that I am the Lord when I have dealt with you ^bfor My name’s sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.’ ”