Yehezkiel 8:12

8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? ¹  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Yehezkiel 33:31

33:31 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 

[8:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:12]  sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).

[33:31]  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.

[33:31]  ³ tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

[33:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “do.”

[33:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

[33:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “goes after.”

[33:31]  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.