Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 33:31

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 35, 36, and following) And I will bring you into a desert of peoples, and there I will judge you face to face. Just as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord. And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

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31They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.

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In context

29And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.

30And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.

— Ezekiel 33:31 —

32And thou art to them as the sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear thy words, but they will not do them.

33But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.

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