Ezekiel 20:32-37 English Standard Version (ESV)

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

33. “As I live, declares the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you.

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

36. 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.

37. I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Ezekiel 20