32 You keep saying you want to be like the other nations. You live like the people in other nations. You serve pieces of wood and stone idols!’”
33 The Lord GOD says, “By my life, I swear that I will rule over you as king. But I will raise my powerful arm and punish you. I will show my anger against you!
34 I will bring you out of these other nations. I scattered you among these nations, but I will gather you together and bring you back from these countries. But I will raise my powerful arm and punish you. I will show my anger against you!
35 I will lead you into a desert as I did before, but this will be a place where other nations live. We will stand face to face, and I will judge you.
36 I will judge you as I judged your ancestors in the desert near Egypt.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
37 “I will judge you guilty and punish you according to the agreement.
38 I will remove all those who turned against me and sinned against me. I will remove them from your homeland. They will never again come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”