Ezekiel 20:33-37 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

33. “As surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God, I warn you that in my anger I will rule over you with a strong hand, with all my power.

34. I will show you my power and my anger when I gather you together and bring you back from all the countries where you have been scattered.

35. I will bring you into the ‘Desert of the Nations’, and there I will condemn you to your face.

36. I will now condemn you just as I condemned your ancestors in the Sinai Desert,” says the Sovereign Lord.

37. “I will take firm control of you and make you obey my covenant.

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