32 “ ‘What you want will not come true. You say, “We want to be like the other nations, like the people in other lands. We want to worship idols made of wood and stone.”
33 As surely as I live, says the Lord God, I will use my great power and strength and anger to rule over you.
34 I will bring you out from the foreign nations. With my great power and strength and anger I will gather you from the lands where you are scattered.
35 I will bring you among the nations as I brought your ancestors into the desert with Moses. There I will judge you face to face.
36 I will judge you the same way I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, says the Lord God.
37 I will count you like sheep and will bring you into line with my agreement.
38 I will get rid of those who refuse to obey me and who turn against me. I will bring them out of the land where they are now living, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.