Eze 36:20, 23 | ESV | STEP | But when they came to the nations , wherever they came , they profaned my holy name , in that people said of them, These are the people of the Lord , and yet they had to go out of his land .

c[ch. 30:19, 26; 38:23; 39:7, 21]; See ch. 6:7

Ezekiel 36:20

20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^athey profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’

Ezekiel 36:23

23 ^bAnd I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. ^cAnd the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.