Ezekiel 33:31

Translations

Modern

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

Traditional

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Literal

And they come to you, like the coming of people, and they sit before you—My people, and they hear your words, and they will not do them; for they do loves with their mouth; their heart is pursuing after dishonest gain.

Latin

Et veniunt ad te, quasi si ingrediatur populus, et sedent coram te populus meus: et audiunt sermones tuos, et non faciunt eos: quia in canticum oris sui vertunt illos, et avaritiam suam sequitur cor eorum.

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English

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

Notes

Ezekiel 33:30–33

The situation was not much better among the exiles in Babylon.

Many of them talked about Ezekiel’s messages. They discussed what he said, but they did not change their attitudes or behavior. They were no different from the people still living in Judah.

They would sit in front of Ezekiel and appear sincere. However, they did not plan to obey what the Lord told them. They treated his messages as something pleasant to hear.

But the Lord warned them that, in time, the truth would be clear. Events would show that the words of a true prophet carry God’s power.

Ezekiel 33:23–33

People in Judah (Ezekiel 33:23–29) and those in exile (33:30–33) continued to act as they had before Jerusalem fell.

Theme notes and profiles

Religious Hypocrisy

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

Psalm 78:36–37
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
Matthew 13:22
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
James 1:22–24
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Luke 11:28
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Isaiah 29:13
Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
James 2:14–16
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
Luke 6:48–49
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
1 John 3:17–18
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
1 Timothy 6:9–10
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
Isaiah 28:13
Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

Glossary

Ezekiel (Person) Ezekiel, Book of Prophecy

Topics

Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God Christian Minister: Message of, Rejected Covetousness: Engrosses the Heart Covetousness: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel: His Popularity Hearers: General Scriptures Concerning Hypocrisy: General Scriptures Concerning Hypocrites: Covetous Hypocrites: Professing but not Practising The Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God The Jews: National Character of Covetous The Jews: National Character of Prone to Formality in Religion

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