“‘Yet,
Survivors
Shall be left
In Jerusalem.
Sons,
With Daughters,
Will be brought out.
They will come out
To you.
When you see
Their ways,
When you see
Their deeds,
You will be consoled.
I have brought
Evil
Upon Jerusalem.
I have brought
All upon it.
They shall console you,
When you see
Their ways,
When you see
Their deeds.
You shall know
That it was not
Without cause
That I did
All that
I have done
In it.’
Says Yahweh God.”
Yahweh said that there would be survivors left in Jerusalem. Sons and daughters of Jerusalem would be brought out of there. They would come out to the earlier exiles. When they saw how the people of Jerusalem had acted in their ways and deeds, they would be consoled. Jerusalem deserved the evil that came upon them. Yahweh sent it to them because he had reason to do so, since this was not a random action.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 