Discovery BoxEzekiel 24:27 
Context24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 1 you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 33:31
Context33:31 They come to you in crowds, 2 and they sit in front of you as 3 my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 4 them. For they talk lustfully, 5 and their heart is set on 6 their own advantage. 7
1 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
2 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.
3 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.
4 tn Heb “do.”
5 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”
6 tn Heb “goes after.”
7 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.
