Yechezkel 20:31-44 יחזקאל כ׳:ל״א-מ״ד

For when you offer your gifts, and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Yisra᾽el? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

And that which comes into your mind shall never come about, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with anger poured out, will I be king over you:

and I will bring you out from the peoples and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with anger poured out.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will remonstrate with you face to face.

As I remonstrated with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Miżrayim, so will I remonstrate with you, says the Lord God.

And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the discipline of the covenant:

and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Yisra᾽el: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

As for you, O house of Yisra᾽el, thus says the Lord God; Go serve every man his idols; but afterwards you will surely hearken to me, and profane my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God, there shall all the house of Yisra᾽el all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your gifts, with all your holy things.

I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the nations.

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Yisra᾽el, into the country about which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have acted with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God.