Ezekiel 33:30-32

Jerusalem Struck Down

³⁰ "As for you, _f son of man, _w your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, 'Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.' ³¹ _x And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for _y with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. ³² And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and _z plays ₁ well on an instrument, for _a they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

1. Cross References
   Ezekiel 33:24
   "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 33:2
   Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman.
   
3. Cross References
   Ezekiel 8:1
   In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 78:36 - 37
   But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
   Isaiah 29:13
   And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men.
   Jeremiah 12:2
   You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.
   1 John 3:18
   Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Samuel 16:17
   So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.
   
6. Cross References
   Matthew 7:26
   And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
   Luke 6:49
   But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.