32 What is in your minds will never happen! You’ve been saying, "Let’s be like the nations and the clans of the lands in the service of wood and stone."
33 This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be your king!
34 I will lead you out from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you’ve been scattered—yes, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out!
35 I will march you out to the wilderness nations, and there I will judge you face-to-face.
36 Just as I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you. This is what the Lord God says.
37 I will make you walk under the rod, and I will bring you into the covenant bond.
38 I will remove from among you those who rebel and transgress against me. I will lead them out from the land where they lived as immigrants, but they won’t enter Israel’s fertile land. Then you will know that I am the Lord.