Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 6:8

"Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries." — Ezekiel 6:8 (ASV)

Yet will I leave a remnant. —In Ezekiel 6:8-10, the general gloom of this prophecy of judgment is lightened for a moment by the mention of the remnant who shall be brought by their afflictions to know that I am the Lord in a far higher and better sense than those mentioned in Ezekiel 6:7.

This Divine plan pursued from the beginning, as is shown by St. Paul in Romans 9:6-13, of purifying the people by setting aside the mass and showing mercy to a remnant, looks far beyond the Babylonian captivity, as is shown by the parallel prophecy of Zechariah, uttered after the return from that captivity, They shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again (Zechariah 10:9). Beyond this brief glimpse at the remnant, however, the cloud settles down again upon the prophecy; for the period until the destruction of Jerusalem, now but a few years off, must be almost exclusively a period of the denunciation of judgment.