33 This is the master Yahweh’s declaration: As I live, I will certainly reign over you all with strict control, and with fury that will be poured out on you. 34 I’ll bring you all out from the other peoples and will gather you out of the countries where you’ve all been scattered. I’ll do this with power and with fury poured out. 35 Then I’ll bring you all into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will judge you all face to face—36 just like I judged your fathers in the Egyptian wilderness, so I’ll also judge you all. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

37 I will cause you all to pass under my staff to be counted, and I’ll make you obey the requirements of our agreement. 38 I will purge the rebels out from among you, as well as those who revolt against me. I’ll send them out from the land where they are staying as foreigners, but they won’t enter Yisrael. Then you’ll all know that I am Yahweh.

39 So to all you Israeli people, the master Yahweh says this: ‘Each of you should go to his own idols. Worship them if you refuse to listen to me, but you must no longer desecrate my sacred name with your gifts and your idols 40 because this is the master Yahweh’s declaration: all the Israeli people will worship me there on my sacred mountain in Yisrael. I’ll be happy to accept your offerings there, along with your choice gifts dedicated to me. 41 I will accept you like a soothing aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you all have been scattered. I’ll display my holiness among you for the nations to see. 42 You’ll all know that I am Yahweh when I bring you back to Israel—to the land that I promised to give to your ancestors. 43 There you’ll all call to mind your conduct and everything that you defiled yourselves by doing, and you’ll despise yourselves in your own eyes for all the evil things that you’ve done. 44 Then you’ll all know that I am Yahweh when I do this to you for the sake of my reputation, i.e., not because of your evil deeds, and not because of your corrupt deeds, you Israeli people. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.’ ”