Ezekiel 20:21 BBE

¹⁹  I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

²⁰  And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.

²¹  But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

²²  And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

²³  Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;