Ezekiel 33:30-33
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30 As for you, mortal, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses say to one another, each to a neighbor, “Come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.” 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.[a](A) 32 To them you are like a singer of love songs,[b] one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; they hear what you say, but they will not do it. 33 When this comes—and come it will!—then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.(B)
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Ezekiel 33:30-33
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30 “And you, son of man,[a] your people,[b] the ones talking together concerning you beside the walls and in the doorways of the houses, each one with his brother saying,[c] ‘Please come and hear what is the word that is going out from Yahweh.’[d] 31 And they come to you as people do,[e] and they sit before you,[f] and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they are showing[g] passion in their mouth, but their heart is going after ill-gotten gain. 32 Now, look! You are to them like a sensual song,[h] beautiful of voice and played well on an instrument,[i] and they hear your words, but they are not doing them.[j] 33 So[k] when it comes,[l] look! It is coming! And then they will know that a prophet was in the midst of them.”
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- Ezekiel 33:30 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
- Ezekiel 33:30 Literally “the children of your people”
- Ezekiel 33:30 Literally “to say”
- Ezekiel 33:30 Literally “the going out from with Yahweh”
- Ezekiel 33:31 Literally “like the coming of a people”
- Ezekiel 33:31 Literally “to the face of you”
- Ezekiel 33:31 Or “expressing”
- Ezekiel 33:32 Literally “like a song of lust”
- Ezekiel 33:32 Literally “doing good to play a music instrument”
- Ezekiel 33:32 Literally “and/but doing there is not they them”
- Ezekiel 33:33 Or “And”
- Ezekiel 33:33 Literally “in/at her coming”
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