Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 20:34

"and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;" — Ezekiel 20:34 (ASV)

Bring you out from the people.— This and the parallel clause, “gather you out of the countries,” cannot refer to the restoration of the people to their land, both because it is an avenging act, “with fury poured out”; and also because its object is said in the next verse to be to bring them into the wilderness. It must therefore refer to the Divine dealings with the people in their dispersion. He will separate them from other people; He will not allow them, as they proposed (Ezekiel 20:32), to “be as the heathen”; but will bring them out and gather them as a distinct race and spiritually separated from them all, to be dealt with as His own peculiar people.