Ezekiel 33:28

God will make the land a desolate waste, ending Judah's proud strength so that even travelers avoid it. Human pride collapses before divine judgment.

Cross-references · 19

• Ezek 7:24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
• Jer 44:2“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
• Ezek 6:14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
• Ezek 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
• Mic 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
• Jer 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
• Jer 44:6Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
• Ezek 12:20The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
• Ezek 36:34–35The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
• Ezek 6:2–6“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
• Ezek 36:4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
• Jer 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
• Zech 7:13–14And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Jer 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
• Jer 25:11And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
• 2 Chr 36:21So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
• Isa 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
• Ezek 15:8Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
• Ezek 30:6–7For this is what the LORD says: The allies of Egypt will fall, and her proud strength will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall by the sword within her, declares the Lord GOD.

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