Ezekiel 36:18-20

New Living Translation

¹⁸ They polluted the land with murder and the worship of idols,^[a] so I poured out my fury on them. ¹⁹ I scattered them to many lands to punish them for the evil way they had lived. ²⁰ But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the Lord, but he couldn’t keep them safe in his own land!’