Ezekiel 6:10

And they shall know that I am the Lord ,.... As in Ezekiel 6:7 ;

and that I have not said in vain ; either within himself, in his own purposes and decrees; so the Targum,

"I have not in vain decreed in my word;'

or by the mouth of the prophets:

that I would do this evil unto them ; in carrying them captive, and dispersing them in other lands; for this is not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment, or of affliction.