Ezekiel 8
8:1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting down before me. And came upon me the hand of Adonai the lord.
8:2And I beheld, and behold, a likeness of a man; from his loin, and unto below as fire; and from his loin and above him as the vision of brightness, as an appearance of molten bronze.
8:3And he stretched out a likeness of a hand, and he took me up by the decorative hem of my top. And spirit took me in between the earth and between the heaven, and led me unto Jerusalem in a vision of God, unto the thresholds of the inner gate looking to the north of which was the monument of the acquirer.
8:4And behold, glory of the lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I beheld in the plain.
8:5And he said to me, O son of man, look up with your eyes towards the north. And I looked up with my eyes towards the north. And behold, from the north at the gate, the one towards the east of the altar, was the image of jealousy; this was in the entering it.
8:6And he said to me, O son of man, do you see what these do? the great lawless deeds which the house of Israel does here to keep at a distance from my holy places? And still you shall see greater lawless deeds.
8:7And he brought me unto the thresholds of the courtyard. And I saw, and behold, one opening in the wall.
8:8And he said to me, O son of man, dig in the wall! And I dug in the wall. And behold, a door.
8:9And he said to me, Enter, and see the evil lawless deeds which these do here!
8:10And I entered and I saw. And behold, every likeness of a crawling thing and a beast, vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, being diagramed upon the wall round about wholly.
8:11And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing before their face; and each had his incense pan in the hand; and the vapor of the incense ascended.
8:12And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in darkness, each of them in their hidden room; because they said, the lord does not see; the lord has abandoned the earth.
8:13And he said to me, Still you will see greater lawless deeds which these do.
8:14And he brought me unto the thresholds of the gate of the house of the lord, of the one looking to the north. And behold, there women were sitting down wailing Tammuz.
8:15And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, and still you shall see greater practices than these.
8:16And he brought me into the courtyard of the house of the lord, the inner courtyard. And upon the thresholds of the temple of the lord between the columned porch and between the altar were about twenty and five men with their posteriors towards the temple of the lord, and their faces before the east. And these did obeisance according to the east to the sun.
8:17And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, is it a small thing to the house of Judah to commit the lawless deeds which they have done here? For they filled the land of lawlessness, and returned to provoke me to anger. And behold, these stretch out the vine branch as ones sneering.
8:18And I shall deal with them with rage. My eye shall not spare, nor shall I show mercy, and should they call in my ears with a great voice, even I will not listen to them.