Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 33:28

"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." — Ezekiel 33:28 (ASV)

Most desolate.— When the people of the northern kingdom had been carried into captivity, the land had been re-populated by colonies brought from various quarters by the king of Assyria, for the ten tribes were not to return. But now the land of Judah was to be left utterly desolate and uninhabited, that it might yet be re-occupied by the returning exiles.

The complete dispersion of the people, which was not brought about even by war and conquest, was finally accomplished by the flight of the remnant into Egypt (Jeremiah 43:5–7), because of their fears.