Ezekiel 20:33-39
Yahweh Judges His People
33“As I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “surely with a strong hand and with an aoutstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be bking over you. 34“And I will abring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with bwrath poured out; 35and I will bring you into the awilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 36“As I aentered into judgment with your fathers in the bwilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Lord Yahweh. 37“And I will make you apass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38and I will apurge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will bnot enter the 1land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.