^{21 Ref} But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

^{22 Ref} And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

^{23 Ref} Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;