Ezekiel 33:22

The Lord had spoken to Ezekiel the evening before the refugees arrived and gave him permission to speak to the people when they heard the announcement of Jerusalem’s fall. This broke the silence that God had imposed on him (cf. Ezekiel 3:26-27; Ezekiel 24:27).

"He was now able to converse with people and have a ’pastoral’ ministry among them apart from his prophetic preaching. For about seven and a half years, Ezekiel had been under this constraint, but now he was free to speak." [Note: Wiersbe, p. 224.]