Ezekiel 20:21-24

Thomson(i) 21 But even these their children rebelled against me. In my statutes they did not walk, nor did they keep my rules of rectitude to practise them, which if a man do he shall live by them; and they profaned my sabbaths; therefore I spoke of pouring out my wrath upon them in the wilderness; of accomplishing mine indignation upon them. 22 But I acted so that my name should not be utterly profaned in the sight of the nations. As I had brought them out before their eyes, 23 I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries. 24 Because they did not practise my rules of rectitude, but rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after the desires of their fathers;