God explains what will happen with King Tzidkiyahu and then on a positive note starts to talk about the continuation of the David bloodline.

More explanation about the riddle.

God finishes the riddle to Yechezkel and then starts to explain the meaning to him.

Further explanation of the riddle.

The completion of the riddle involving King Tzidkiyahu.

Yechezkel 1st prophecy begins.

`In order that you remember and be ashamed, and you will no longer have an excuse by reason of your humiliation, when I forgive you for all that you have done," says God.

God says that although He remembers

what the Jews did, in the future He will bring them back to Israel. The Jews should be embarrassed for what they did.

For the first time Yechezkel talks about the time of the Moshiach. He also continues the comparison between the Jews of Yehuda and those of the Northern Kingdom and the People of Sodom and Gomorrah

.

A discussion of the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah

and why they were destroyed as compared to the Jews of Yehuda who in many ways were worse but were only exiled.