Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 20:30-44 - English Standard Version (2024)

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Listen to Ezekiel 20:30-44

³⁰“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go ^(B)whoring after their detestable things? ³¹When you present your gifts and ^(C)offer up your children in fire,^[a] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And ^(D)shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? ^(E)As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

³²^(F)“What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ^(G)‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, ^(H)and worship wood and stone.’

The Lord Will Restore Israel

³³^(I)“As I live, declares the Lord God, ^(J)surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and ^(K)with wrath poured out I will be king over you. ³⁴^(L)I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. ³⁵^(M)And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, ^(N)and there I will enter into judgment with you ^(O)face to face. ³⁶^(P)As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God. ³⁷I will make you ^(Q)pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. ³⁸^(R)I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. ^(S)I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, ^(T)but they shall not enter the land of Israel. ^(U)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁹“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: ^(V)Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; ^(W)but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

⁴⁰^(X)“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord God, there ^(Y)all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. ^(Z)There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings. ⁴¹As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when ^(AA)I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And ^(AB)I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. ⁴²^(AC)And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that ^(AD)I swore to give to your fathers. ⁴³^(AE)And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, ^(AF)and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed. ⁴⁴And you shall know that I am the Lord, ^(AG)when I deal with you for my name's sake, ^(AH)not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”