Ezekiel 36:16-21

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁶ The Lord spoke his word to me. He said, ¹⁷ “Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they dishonored it by the way they lived and by everything they did. Their ways were as unclean ^[a] as a woman’s menstrual period. ¹⁸ So I poured out my fury on them because they poured out blood on the land and they dishonored the land with their idols. ¹⁹ I forced them into other nations, and they became scattered among the nations. I judged them based on the way that they lived and based on everything that they had done. ²⁰ But wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, yet they had to leave his land.’ ²¹ I became concerned about my holy name because my people dishonored it among the nations wherever they went.