Gathered under the covenant

33As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will reign over you.

34I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you have been scattered, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out.

35I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

36Just 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 pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

38I will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

39But as for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go, each man, serve his idols—if afterward you will not listen to me; but you shall no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

40For on my holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, will serve me. There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the firstfruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

41I will accept you like a pleasing aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I will show myself holy through you before the eyes of the nations.

42Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land that I lifted up my hand to give to your fathers.

43There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evils that you have done.

44Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I deal with you for the sake of my name, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.