The Disobedient Exiles of Babylon

³⁰ “Now as for you, Son of Man, your nation’s children keep gathering together to talk about you beside the walls and at the doorway to their houses. Everyone tells one another, ‘Please come! Let’s go hear what the Lord has to say!’ ³¹ Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words—and then they don’t do what you say—^[a] because they’re seeking only their own desires,^[b] they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests. ³² As far as they are concerned, you sing romantic songs with a beautiful voice and play a musical instrument well. They’ll listen to what you have to say, but they won’t put it into practice! ³³ When all of this comes about—and you can be sure that it will!—they’ll learn that a prophet has been in their midst.”