Ezekiel 20:44

⁴⁴ And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done well by you for my own name's sake, and not according to your evil ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Forest of the south

The forest of the south, as in Ezekiel 20:46, 47, signifies people in the light of truth and extinguish it.