Ezekiel 20:20-22

20:20 Treat my Sabbaths as holy 1  and they will be a reminder of our relationship, 2  and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.” 20:21 “‘But the children 3  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys 4  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out 5  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness. 20:22 But I refrained from doing so, 6  and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

1 tn Or “set apart my Sabbaths.”

2 tn Heb “and they will become a sign between me and you.”

3 tn Heb “sons.”

4 tn Or “carries them out.”

5 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

6 tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.