Ezekiel 33:23-29

23-29. The captives were utterly paralyzed by the confirmed account of the destruction of the holy city (Ezekiel 24:23), and Ezekiel with redoubled influence, because of the fulfillment of his former prophecy, lifts up his voice once more in another word of warning and comfort. He recites the boast of the miserable lawless remnant of the population which had been left in the ruined cities of the land that they would take possession of the property of the captives (Ezekiel 33:24). He recounts their many sins, showing how they depended upon their swords, not upon law or justice, in their treatment of each other, and how they worked abominations and violated the most sacred family relations (Ezekiel 33:25-26; compare Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 18:11; Ezekiel 18:15; Ezekiel 20:9; Ezekiel 22:6; Ezekiel 22:9; and Jeremiah 40-44), and he declares that a dishonored death shall come to them for their sins (Ezekiel 33:27; compare Ezekiel 27:29-31), and the land shall be left uninhabited (Ezekiel 33:28) until the exiles go back again to possess it (Ezekiel 34:13).