And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
The exiles will see God's justice plain in their own ruin, and knowing this, their minds will find rest. We need not understand every reason for His severity to be comforted; it suffices to know that God is just, and to acquiesce in His judgments with reverent trust.
AI summary
National sins bring national judgments without fail. When vice becomes widespread and heinous, God stretches forth His hand in punishment with grievous plagues suited to the sin. He commands a variety of judgments to show His universal dominion over all human concerns.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 14:12-23
they shall comfort you--not in words, but by your recognizing in their manifest guilt, that God had not been unjustly severe to them and the city. This chapter represents, in the way of a brief introduction, what the sixteenth chapter details minutely. Next: Ezekiel Chapter 15