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and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Then they will know that I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>But as for you, son of man, your fellow citizens who talk about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, Come now and hear what the message is which comes forth from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>They come to you as people come, and sit before you <i>as</i> My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires <i>expressed</i> by their mouth, <i>and</i> their heart goes after their gain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/33-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>So when it comes to passas surely it willthen they will know that a prophet has been in their midst. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/33.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/33.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ezekiel/33.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolated, so that none shall pass through.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/33.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment, and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/33.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/33.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/33.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/the_warning_neglected.htm">The Warning Neglected</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Now, this morning, by God's help, I shall labor to be personal, and whilst I pray for the rich assistance of the Divine Spirit, I will also ask one thing of each person here present--I would ask of every Christian that he would lift up a prayer to God, that the service may be blessed; and I ask of every other person that he will please to understand that I am preaching to him, and at him; and if there be anything that is personal and pertinent to his own case, I beseech him, as for life and death, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/the_warning_neglected.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/wesley_preaches_in_newgate_gaol.htm">Wesley Preaches in Newgate Gaol</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Sunday, September 17. (London).--I began again to declare in my own country the glad tidings of salvation, preaching three times and afterward expounding the Holy Scripture, to a large company in the Minories. On Monday I rejoiced to meet with our little society, which now consisted of thirty-two persons. The next day I went to the condemned felons in Newgate and offered them free salvation. In the evening I went to a society in Bear Yard and preached repentance and remission of sins. The next evening <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/wesley_preaches_in_newgate_gaol.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">The Journal of John Wesley</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_to_professing_christians/the_seventh_chapter_of_the.htm">The Seventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I have more than once had occasion to refer to this chapter, and have read some portions of it and made remarks. But I have not been able to go into a consideration of it so fully as I wished, and therefore thought I would make it the subject of a separate lecture. In giving my views I shall pursue the following order: I. Mention the different opinions that have prevailed in the church concerning this passage. II. Show the importance of understanding this portion of scripture aright, or of knowing <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_to_professing_christians/the_seventh_chapter_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles G. Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Lectures to Professing Christians</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_vii/sermon_xiv_religion_pleasant_to.htm">Religion Pleasant to the Religious. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"O taste and see how gracious the Lord is; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him."--Psalm xxxiv. 8. You see by these words what love Almighty God has towards us, and what claims He has upon our love. He is the Most High, and All-Holy. He inhabiteth eternity: we are but worms compared with Him. He would not be less happy though He had never created us; He would not be less happy though we were all blotted out again from creation. But He is the God of love; He brought us all into existence, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_vii/sermon_xiv_religion_pleasant_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xcii_second_great_group_of_3.htm">Second Great Group of Parables. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Probably in Peræa.) Subdivision C. Parable of the Lost Coin. ^C Luke XV. 8-10. ^c 8 Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp [because oriental houses are commonly without windows, and therefore dark], and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, she calleth together her friends and neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. [The drachma, or piece of silver, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xcii_second_great_group_of_3.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xiii_attributes_of_love.htm">Attributes of Love. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">8. Efficiency is another attribute or characteristic of benevolence. Benevolence consists in choice, intention. Now we know from consciousness that choice or intention constitutes the mind's deepest source or power of action. If I honestly intend a thing, I cannot but make efforts to accomplish that which I intend, provided that I believe the thing possible. If I choose an end, this choice must and will energize to secure its end. When benevolence is the supreme choice, preference, or intention of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xiii_attributes_of_love.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xxix_evidences_of_regeneration.htm">Evidences of Regeneration. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. Introductory remarks. 1. In ascertaining what are, and what are not, evidences of regeneration, we must constantly keep in mind what is not, and what is regeneration; what is not, and what is implied in it. 2. We must constantly recognize the fact, that saints and sinners have precisely similar constitutions and constitutional susceptibilities, and therefore that many things are common to both. What is common to both cannot, of course, he an evidence of regeneration. 3. That no state of the sensibility <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xxix_evidences_of_regeneration.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/practical_discourses_on_regeneration/discourse_i_of_the_character.htm">Of the Character of the Unregenerate. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Ephes. ii. 1, 2. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. AMONG all the various trusts which men can repose in each other, hardly any appears to be more solemn and tremendous, than the direction of their sacred time, and especially of those hours which they spend in the exercise of public devotion. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/practical_discourses_on_regeneration/discourse_i_of_the_character.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Philip Doddridge—</span><span class="citation2">Practical Discourses on Regeneration</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_34_a_consecrated_ministry.htm">A Consecrated Ministry</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In His life and lessons Christ has given a perfect exemplification of the unselfish ministry which has its origin in God. God does not live for Himself. By creating the world, and by upholding all things, He is constantly ministering to others. "He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." Matthew 5:45. This ideal of ministry the Father committed to His Son. Jesus was given to stand at the head of humanity, by His example to teach what it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_34_a_consecrated_ministry.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/moule/to_my_younger_brethren/chapter_xii_preaching_iii.htm">Preaching (iii. ). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Eternal Fulness, overflow to me Till I, Thy vessel, overflow for Thee; For sure the streams that make Thy garden grow Are never fed but by an overflow: Not till Thy prophets with Thyself run o'er Are Israel's watercourses full once more. Again I treat of the sermon. We have looked, my younger Brother and I, at some main secrets and prescriptions for attractive preaching. What shall I more say on the subject of the pulpit? In the first place I will offer a few miscellaneous suggestions, and then <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/moule/to_my_younger_brethren/chapter_xii_preaching_iii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Handley C. G. Moule—</span><span class="citation2">To My Younger Brethren</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_7_jeroboam.htm">Jeroboam</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Placed on the throne by the ten tribes of Israel who had rebelled against the house of David, Jeroboam, the former servant of Solomon, was in a position to bring about wise reforms in both civil and religious affairs. Under the rulership of Solomon he had shown aptitude and sound judgment; and the knowledge he had gained during years of faithful service fitted him to rule with discretion. But Jeroboam failed to make God his trust. Jeroboam's greatest fear was that at some future time the hearts of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_7_jeroboam.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/33-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 33:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 33:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/33-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 33:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 33:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/ezekiel/33-28.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>