Ezekiel 20:33-44

33“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “with a mighty hand and with an 1outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I assuredly shall be 2king over you. 34I will 3bring 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 4wrath poured out; 35and I will bring you into the 5wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 36Just as I 6entered into judgment with your fathers in the 7wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God. 37“I will make you 8pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38and I will 9purge from you the rebels and those who revolt against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they reside, but they will 10not enter the 11land 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: “12Go, serve, everyone of you his idols; 13but later you will certainly listen to Me, and My holy name you will no longer 14defile 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, 15all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will 16accept them and there I will demand your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things. 4117As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I 18bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will show Myself to be 19holy among you in the sight of the nations. 42And 20you will know that I am the Lord, 21when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the 22land which I swore to give to your forefathers. 43And there you will 23remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourselves; and you will 24loathe yourselves in your own 25sight for all the evil things that you have done. 44Then 26you will know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you 27in behalf of My name, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.’”