Ezekiel 33:28

And I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, And ceased hath the excellency of its strength, And desolated have been mountains of Israel, Without any one passing through.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

In Context

27Thus dost thou say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live — do not they who [are] in the wastes by the sword fall? And they who [are] on the face of the field, To the beast I have given for food, And they who are in strongholds and in caves by pestilence die.

29And they have known that I [am] Jehovah, In My making the land a desolation and an astonishment, For all their abominations that they have done.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfil the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land hath enjoyed its sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept sabbath — to the fulness of seventy years.

Jeremiah 9:11And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 25:11And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 44:6and poured out is My fury, and Mine anger, and it burneth in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and they are for a waste, for a desolation, as [at] this day.

Ezekiel 6:2'Son of man, set thy face unto mountains of Israel, and prophesy concerning them:

Ezekiel 7:24And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:22-30

Message to Inhabitants of Judah; Rebuke to the Proud Jews. ( b. c. 587.) 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,… Read the whole commentary →

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