Ezekiel 14:21

"For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! But, behold, there shall be left therein a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done with, out cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord Jehovah."

"There shall be left therein a remnant ..." (Ezekiel 14:22). This is not the "righteous remnant" remnant" so often mentioned in Isaiah; because this remnant was wicked. These "sons and daughters" were in no sense saved; but God preserved them as specimens and witnesses of the corrupt Israel that had required God's terminal punishment. Ezekiel pointed out that they would be a source of comfort to those of right mind among the captives, because their ways and their doings (always mentioned by Ezekiel in the sense of wickedness) would enable the captives to see the righteousness of all that God would bring to pass in Jerusalem.