Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Ezekiel 36:20

20. profaned my holy name, when they--the heathen

said to them--the Israelites.

These, &c.--The Israelites gave a handle of reproach to the heathen against God, who would naturally say, These who take usury, oppress, commit adultery, &c., and who, in such an abject plight, are "gone forth" as exiles "out of His land," are specimens of what Jehovah can or will effect, for His people, and show what kind of a God this so-called holy, omnipotent, covenant-keeping God must be! (Is 52:5; Ro 2:24).