Ezekiel 20:1-9

God's Dealing with Israel

20¹ And it cometh to pass, in the seventh year, in the fifth 'month', in the tenth of the month, come in have certain of the elders of Israel to seek Jehovah, and they sit before me; ² and there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ³ 'Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: To seek Me are ye coming in? I live—I am not sought by you—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ⁴ Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know,

⁵ and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of My fixing on Israel, I lift up My hand, To the seed of the house of Jacob, And am known to them in the land of Egypt, And I lift up My hand to them, Saying, I 'am' Jehovah your God. ⁶ In that day I did lift up My hand to them, To bring them forth from the land of Egypt, Unto a land that I spied out for them, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it 'is' to all the lands, ⁷ And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I 'am' Jehovah your God. ⁸ And—they rebel against Me, And have not been willing to hearken to Me, Each, the detestable things of their eyes, They have not cast away, And the idols of Egypt have not forsaken, And I say—to pour out My fury on them, To complete Mine anger against them, In the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ And I do 'it' for My name's sake, Not to pollute 'it' before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they 'are', Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.