Ezekiel 20:33–44

³³As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will reign over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm^h and with outpoured wrath.^{i 34}I will bring you from the nations^j and gather^k you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand^l and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.^{m 35}I will bring you into the wildernessⁿ of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment^o upon you. ³⁶As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.^{p 37}I will take note of you as you pass under my rod,^q and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.^{r 38}I will purge^s you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^t

³⁹“ ‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Go and serve your idols,^u every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name^v with your gifts and idols.^{w 40}For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel,^x declares the Sovereign Lord, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings^y and your choice gifts,^b along with all your holy sacrifices.^{z 41}I will accept you as fragrant incense^a when I bring you out from the nations and gather^b you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy^c through you in the sight of the nations.^{d 42}Then you will know that I am the Lord,^e when I bring you into the land of Israel,^f the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.^{g 43}There you will remember your conduct^h and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselvesⁱ for all the evil you have done.^{j 44}You will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name’s sake^k and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices, you people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.^l’ ”