Ezekiel 20:33–44

God Will Restore Israel

³³“As I live,” says the Lord God, “surely with a mighty hand, ^xwith an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. ³⁴I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. ³⁵And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there ^yI will plead My case with you face to face. ^36zJust as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.

³⁷“I will make you ^apass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the ^bcovenant; ^38cI will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but ^dthey shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: ^e“Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; ^fbut profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols. ⁴⁰For ^gon My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,” says the Lord God, “there ^hall the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there ⁱI will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your ⁷sacrifices, together with all your holy things. ⁴¹I will accept you as a ^jsweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles. ^42kThen you shall know that I am the Lord, ^lwhen I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers. ⁴³And ^mthere you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and ⁿyou shall ⁸loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed. ^44oThen you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you ^pfor My name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel,” says the Lord God.’ ”