Ezekiel 20:22-24

The Voice

²² But for the sake of My good name and reputation, I suspended their punishment. I chose not to profane My name in the eyes of those nations who had witnessed Me bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. ²³ Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among those nations and cast them out into unfamiliar lands ²⁴ because they had refused to obey My rules and rejected My laws. Instead, their eyes were devoted to their fathers’ breathless idols, and they polluted My Sabbaths.