Ezekiel 20:35
Good News Translation
I will bring you into the 'Desert of the Nations,' and there I will condemn you to your face.

New Revised Standard Version
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Contemporary English Version
and lead you into a desert surrounded by nations. I will meet you there face to face. Then I will pass judgment on you

New American Bible
I will lead you to the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you face to face.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

I will

Ezekiel 20:36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 19:13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it.

Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

Micah 4:10 Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counselor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour.

Micah 7:13-15 And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices. . . .

Revelation 12:14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

and there

Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.

Ezekiel 38:22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and with violent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone upon him, and upon his army, and upon the many nations that are with him.

Jeremiah 2:9,35 Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children. . . .

Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 6:1,2 Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. . . .

Context
Judgment and Restoration
34And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the countries, in which you are scattered, I will reign over you with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there will I plead with you face to face.36As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:7
Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against you before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and to your fathers:

Psalm 74:22
Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Jeremiah 2:9
Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.

Jeremiah 25:31
The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 17:20
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.

Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

Ezekiel 20:36
As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 2:14
Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

Ezekiel 20:34
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