Ezekiel 20:44-46

New Living Translation

⁴⁴ You will know that I am the Lord, O people of Israel, when I have honored my name by treating you mercifully in spite of your wickedness. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Judgment against the Negev

^45 [a]Then this message came to me from the Lord: ⁴⁶ “Son of man, turn and face the south^[b] and speak out against it; prophesy against the brushlands of the Negev.