³⁸ and I will ^(A)purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will ^(B)not enter the ^[a]land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.

²⁰ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you push with side and with shoulder, and ^(A)thrust at all the sickly with your horns until you have scattered them ^[a]abroad, ²² therefore, I will ^(B)save My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

The Great Day of Yahweh

4 “^[a]For behold, the day is coming, ^(A)burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every worker of wickedness will be ^(B)chaff; and the day that is coming will ^(C)set them aflame,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

³² And all the nations will be ^(A)gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, ^(B)as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;