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. And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations, whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken by their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them."

"Yet will I leave a remnant ..." (Ezekiel 6:8). The arbitrary, unsubstantiated, and reckless view of some critics that, "There is no doctrine of a remnant in Ezekiel,"[13] is effectively refuted by this unequivocal declaration of the sacred text; and we are unwilling to allow evil men to re-write the Bible in order to prove their theories.

As Matthew Henry stated it, "It is a preserved remnant and a penitent remnant";[14] and it was in this small remnant who after the exile would find their way back to Judea that the ancient promises to the patriarchs and the coming of Messiah to redeem mankind would eventually be achieved, according to the eternal purpose of God.

Plumptre noted that the thought here regarding the remnant is the same as that in Isaiah 1:9; 10:20; Zephaniah 2:7; 3:13; and Jeremiah 43:5.[15]

"I have been broken by their lewd heart ..." (Ezekiel 6:9). Many scholars agree with the translation of this clause as, "I have broken their whorish heart which hath departed from me."[16] It is never God who is broken by the sins of men, but men themselves I The reference here is to the heart-breaking punishment of apostate Israel; but out of that crushing of a whole nation, there came at last the small residue of a humbled, contrite people, who repented and turned to God.