Ezekiel 8

And it came to pass ^ain the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and ^bthe elders of Judah sat before me, that ^cthe hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. ²Then I beheld, and lo, ^da likeness as the appearance of fire: ^dfrom the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of ^ebrightness, ^fas the colour of amber. ³And ^ghe put forth ^hthe form of a hand, and ⁱtook me by a lock of mine head; and ^jthe spirit lift me up ^kbetween the earth and the heaven, and ^lbrought me ^min the visions of God to Jerusalem, ⁿto the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; ^owhere was the seat of ^pthe image of jealousy, ^qwhich provoketh to jealousy. ⁴And behold, ^rthe glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw ^sin the plain.

⁵Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the north. So I lift up mine eyes the way toward the north, ^tand behold, northward at the gate of ^uthe altar this ^pimage of jealousy in the entry. ⁶He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even ^tuuthe great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. ⁷And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold ^va hole in the wall. ⁸Then said he unto me, Son of man, ^vvdig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. ⁹And he said unto me, Go in, and ^tbehold the wicked abominations that they do here. ¹⁰So I went in and saw; and behold every form of ^wcreeping things, and ^tabominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, ^xpourtrayed upon the wall round about. ¹¹And there stood before them ^yseventy men of ^zthe ancients of the house of Israel, and ^ain the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of ^bShaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. ¹²Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what ^zthe ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of ^chis imagery? for they say, ^deThe Lord seeth us not; ^dthe Lord hath forsaken the earth. ¹³He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

¹⁴Then he brought me to the door of ^fthe gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. ¹⁶And he brought me into ^gthe inner court of the Lord’s house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, ^hbetween ⁱthe porch and ^kthe altar, were ^labout five and twenty men, ^mwith their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east; and ⁿthey worshipped ^othe sun towards the east. ¹⁷Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they ^uucommit the abominations which they commit here? for ^pthey have filled the land with ^qviolence, and have returned ^rto provoke me to anger: and lo, they put ^sthe branch to their nose. ^18tTherefore will I also deal in fury: ^umine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and ^vthough they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

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