Ezekiel 36:20

²⁰ And when they entered among the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

Heard and hearkened

In Genesis 4:23, this signifies acknowledgment and confession, made where the church is. (Arcana Coelestia 427)