And the word of the LORD came to me:
God sets His face against Judah like a forest stripped bare of fruit, overgrown with briars and thorns where a vineyard should flourish. The sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity will burn through it like fire consuming timber, and though the message is one of wrath, it must be delivered gently, that hearts might soften as earth drinks the rain.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 20:45-49
And say to the forest of the south,.... To the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea: hear the word of the Lord; attend to it, and receive it, believe it, and take warning from it: thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will kindle a fire in thee; in Jerusalem; meaning that he would send great calamities among them, the sword of the Chaldean army, famine...
An introductory brief description in enigma of the destruction by fire and sword, detailed more explicitly in Eze. 21:1-32.