rsv Ezekiel:20:21-24
rsv@Ezekiel:20:21 @ But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; they profaned my sabbaths. "Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:22 @ But I withheld my hand, and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:23 @ Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
rsv@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.