Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 14:23

23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their wayes 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.

That survive the Siege, Famine and Ruin of Ierusalem, and are brought to Babylon.

Either confessing their faults in not doing as they had done, justifying the wise course they took who yielded, condemning the folly of hardning themselves against God, his Judgments, and his Prophets, or be matter of comfort, affording to you just ground of comforting your selves.

Understand it in the effects of it upon the ruined Jews. Or, in the relation which they will make both of your sins and sufferings in the Land of Canaan.

You of the first Captivity, you that obeyed my voice and submitted to the Babylonian yoke.

Be fully satisfied that I have had but too much cause, and most just reason for all that I have done against Ierusalem 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.