Ezekiel 20:13-15

New English Translation

¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out^[a] my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.^{[b] 14} I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. ¹⁵ I also swore^[c] to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.