Ezekiel 20:32-44

32And whatever 1comes 2into your mind certainly will not come about, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, 3serving wood and stone.’

33“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “with a mighty hand and with an 4outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I assuredly shall be 5king over you. 34I will 6bring 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 7wrath poured out; 35and I will bring you into the 8wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 36Just as I 9entered into judgment with your fathers in the 10wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God. 37“I will make you 11pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38and I will 12purge from you the rebels and those who revolt against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they reside, but they will 13not enter the 14land of Israel. So you will know that I am the Lord.

39“As for you, house of Israel,” this is what the Lord God says: “15Go, serve, everyone of you his idols; 16but later you will certainly listen to Me, and My holy name you will no longer 17defile with your gifts and your idols. 40For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “there the entire house of Israel, 18all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will 19accept them and there I will demand your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things. 4120As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I 21bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will show Myself to be 22holy among you in the sight of the nations. 42And 23you will know that I am the Lord, 24when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the 25land which I swore to give to your forefathers. 43And there you will 26remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourselves; and you will 27loathe yourselves in your own 28sight for all the evil things that you have done. 44Then 29you will know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you 30in behalf of My name, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.’”