Ezekiel 20:33-39

Common English Bible

³³ This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be your king! ³⁴ I will lead you out from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you’ve been scattered—yes, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out! ³⁵ I will march you out to the wilderness nations, and there I will judge you face-to-face. ³⁶ Just as I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you. This is what the Lord God says. ³⁷ I will make you walk under the rod, and I will bring you into the covenant bond. ³⁸ I will remove from among you those who rebel and transgress against me. I will lead them out from the land where they lived as immigrants, but they won’t enter Israel’s fertile land. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹ But to you, house of Israel, the Lord God proclaims: Go ahead and serve your idols, all of you! But afterward, if any of you are left to listen to me,^[a] you will no longer make my holy name impure with your gifts or your idols!