1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah
sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me. 2 Then I
saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance
of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the
appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. 3 He put forth the
form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up
between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the
north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to
jealousy. 4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain. 5 Then said he to me, Son of man,
lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the
way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image
of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that
I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other
great abominations. 7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I
looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig
now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. 9 He said
to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I
went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable
animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall
round about. 11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the
house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense
went up. 12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery?
for they say, Yahweh doesn’t see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. 13 He
said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they
do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which
was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said he to me, Have you seen this, son of man? you shall
again see yet greater abominations than these. 16 He brought me into the
inner court of Yahweh’s house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh,
between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs
toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were
worshipping the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen
this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, behold,
they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath;
my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my
ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
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