Ezekiel 8:11–18

¹¹And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing before them.^y Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up. ¹²And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man,^z what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for they are saying, ‘Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.’ ” ¹³And he said to me, “Still you will see again^a greater detestable things that they are doing.” ¹⁴And he brought me to the doorway of the gate of the house of Yahweh that is toward the north, and look! There were the women sitting weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man?^b Still you will see again^c greater detestable things than these.” ¹⁶And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, at the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down toward the east before the sun. ¹⁷And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man?^d Was it too small a thing^e for the house of Judah to do^f the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land with violence, and they provoked me to anger again,^g and look! They are putting the branch to their nose. ¹⁸And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear with a loud voice, and I will not hear them.”