Ezekiel 20:32-38

32What you have in mind will never happen. You think that you want to be like other nations, like the different people in other countries. You want to serve wood and stone.

33“ ‘As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I will rule you with a mighty hand and a powerful arm, and I will pour out my fury.

34I will bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where I have scattered you with my mighty hand and powerful arm. I will pour out my fury.

35I will bring you into the desert of the nations. There I will put you on trial face to face.

36I will put you on trial as I put your ancestors on trial in the desert of Egypt, declares the Almighty Lord.

37Then I will make you suffer punishment and make you keep the terms of the promise.

38I will get rid of rebels and those who do wrong against me. I will bring you out of the land where you are living. You will never enter Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.