Ezekiel 20:13-14

Thomson(i) 13 And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, "Walk in my statutes, "but they walked not. They rejected my rules of rectitude, which if a man practise he shall live by them; and they profaned my sabbaths exceedingly: whereupon I spoke of pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to destroy them utterly: 14 But I acted so that my name should not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out: