The Lord Will Restore Israel

^33 (A)“As I live, declares the Lord God, ^(B)surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and ^(C)with wrath poured out I will be king over you. ^34 (D)I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. ^35 (E)And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, ^(F)and there I will enter into judgment with you ^(G)face to face. ^36 (H)As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God. ³⁷ I will make you ^(I)pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. ^38 (J)I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. ^(K)I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, ^(L)but they shall not enter the land of Israel. ^(M)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹ “As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: ^(N)Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; ^(O)but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.