God, of course, refuses to let himself be forced to fix any set time for this much-to-be-desired event. ‘When this comes—and come it will!’ Here we are no longer concerned with a word of judgment like that in 12:25f., 28, but with a new approach of Yahweh to his people, which the word of the prophet indicates with increasing insistence before and after the fall of Jerusalem. It is now time to keep one’s eyes open for this wonderful event, of which God himself has given a guarantee. What Ezekiel keeps