Text -- Ezekiel 33:31-33 (NET)

33:31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. 33:32 Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them. 33:33 When all this comes true– and it certainly will– then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 33:31

¹ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

² tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

³ tn Heb “do.”

⁴ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

⁵ tn Heb “goes after.”

⁶ tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

NET Notes: Eze 33:32

¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

² tn Heb “one who makes playing music well.”

³ sn Similar responses are found in Isa 29:13; Matt 21:28-32; James 1:22-25.

NET Notes: Eze 33:33

¹ tn Heb “behold it is coming.”