Ezekiel 36:16-20
Ezekiel 36:16
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 36:17
“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Ezekiel 36:18
Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.
Ezekiel 36:19
I also scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezekiel 36:20
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have left His land.’