Ezekiel 14:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They that survive the siege, famine, and ruin of Jerusalem, and are brought to Babylon, shall comfort you; either confessing their faults in not doing as you had done, justifying the wise course they took who yielded, condemning the folly of hardening themselves against God, his judgments, and his prophets; or be matter of comfort, affording to you just ground of comforting yourselves. When ye see their ways: understand it in the effects of it upon the ruined Jews; or, in the relation which they will make both of their sins and sufferings in the land of Canaan. Ye, you of the first captivity, you that obeyed my voice, and submitted to the Babylonian yoke, shall know, be fully satisfied, that I have had but too much cause, and most just reason, for all that I have done against Jerusalem and its land, and inhabitants of both; you shall know my hand, and as you feel the weight, so you shall see the justice of it too against them, and the mercy of it towards you.