Ezekiel 20:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ However, the children rebelled against me. They did not observe my statutes or keep my ordinances, even though observance of them would lead to life. Moreover, they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I again resolved to pour forth my wrath against them and vent my anger on them in the wilderness. ²² But I restrained my hand and acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose presence I had brought them out.

²³ Nevertheless, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them over the earth,