Ezekiel:20:30-44

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* For this reason , say to the house of Israel , So says the Lord Jehovah : Are you being defiled in the way of your fathers ? And do you go whoring after their filthy idols ? * For when you lift up your gifts , when you pass your sons through the fire , you defile yourselves with all your idols , even to this day . And I will not be inquired of by you , O house of Israel As I live , declares the Lord Jehovah , I will not be inquired of by you . * And what comes up on your spirit shall surely not occur , that you say , We will be like the nations , like the families of the lands , to serve wood and stone . * As I live , says the Lord Jehovah , Surely with a mighty hand , and with an outstretched arm , and with fury poured out , I will reign over you . * And I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands in which you are scattered among them with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm , and with fury poured out . * And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples , and I will be judging face to face there with you . * Just as I was judging your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt , so I will be judging you , declares the Lord Jehovah . * And I will cause you to pass under the rod , and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant . * And I will purge from among you the rebels and the transgressors against Me . I will bring them out of the land where they reside . and they shall not enter into the land of Israel . And you shall know that I am Jehovah . * And you , O house of Israel , so says the Lord Jehovah : Every man go , serve his idols , even hereafter , if you will not listen to Me . But you will not still profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols . * For in My holy mountain in the mountain height of Israel , declares the Lord Jehovah , all the house of Israel shall serve Me there , all of them in the land . There I will accept them , and there I will seek your have offerings and the firstfruits of your offerings , with all your holy things . * I will accept you with a soothing aroma when I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you have been scattered in them . And I will be sanctified among you in the eyes of the nations . * And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I bring you into the land of Israel , to the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers . * And you shall remember there your ways and all your deeds by which you have been defiled in them . And you will hate yourselves to your faces for all your evils which you have done . * And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I have worked with you for My name 's sake , and not by your evil ways , nor by your corrupt deeds , O house of Israel , declares the Lord Jehovah .

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