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As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD , I will rule over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered-with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

I will bring you into the desert of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment upon you.

As I judged your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign LORD .

I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD .

" 'As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.