Ezekiel 20:20-22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰ and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, so that you may know that I the Lord am your God. ²¹ But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my sabbaths.

Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. ²² But I withheld my hand, and acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.