Ezekiel 14:11
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel belonged to the priestly family and prophesied among the captives of Israel between the years 595 and 574, beginning and closing his work just a little later than Jeremiah. He spoke as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar while Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem, and the verse falls within the first twenty chapters of his book. The verse is part of his awful messages of warning and reproof to the sinners among his own people.
The surrounding chapter warns of the danger of idols and stumblingblocks of iniquity and of the duty of turning from them to God. Before he was sent, God revealed His glory to him in wonderful visions and impressed His great majesty upon him, so that having once seen God he would not fear the face of man when meeting those sinners. God's purpose in addressing Israel's transgressions is to keep them from straying from Him and being polluted any more with them, so that they may be His people and He may be their God.