Ezekiel 6:8-10

The object of all this devastation is the vindication of God's insulted honour: ye shall know that I am Yahweh (a very common phrase in Ezekiel), the just and mighty Yahweh, in comparison with the impotent idols. But that honour will be more completely vindicated by the penitence and conversion of sinners than by their destruction: and Ezekiel anticipates that a remnant in exile, smitten with self-loathing as they contemplate the fearful consequences of their immorality and idolatry, will remember the God whom they had forsaken, repent, and acknowledge Him. (In Ezekiel 6:9 read, and I will break their whorish heart, i.e. with calamity.)