Ezekiel 20:31
20:31 When you present your sacrifices 1 – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, 2 O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! 3
Ezekiel 20:38
20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt 4 against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
1 tn Or “gifts.”
2 tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”
3 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
4 tn See the note at 2:3.