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Ezekiel 8

1 And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, and in the fifth day of the month, as I
sat in my house, and the Elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord
God fell there upon me.

2 Then I beheld, and lo, there was a likeness, as the appearance of fire, to look
to, from his loins downward, and from his loins upward, as the appearance of
brightness, and like unto amber.

3 And he stretched out the likeness of an hand, and took me by an hairy lock of
my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth, and the heaven, and
brought me by a Divine vision to Jerusalem, into the entry of ye inner gate that
lieth toward the North, where remained the idol of indignation, which provoked
indignation.

4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there according to the vision,
that I saw in the field.

5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now toward the North. So
I lifted up my eyes toward the North, and behold, Northward, at the gate of the
altar, this idol of indignation was in the entry.

6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou not what they do? even
the great abominations that the house of Israel commiteth here to cause me to
depart from my Sanctuary? but yet turn thee and thou shalt see greater
abominations.

7 And he caused me to enter at the gate of the court: and when I looked, behold,
an hole was in the wall.

8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had dug in
the wall, behold, there was a door.

9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do
here.

10 So I went in, and saw, and behold, there was every similitude of creeping
things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel painted
upon the wall round about.

11 And there stood before them seventy men of the Ancients of the house of
Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah, ye son of Shaphan, with every
man his censor in his hand, and the vapor of the incense went up like a cloud.

12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the Ancients of the
house of Israel do in the dark, everyone in the chamber of his imagery? for they
say, The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

13 Again he said also unto me, Turn thee again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations that they do.

14 And he caused me to enter into the entry of the gate of the Lord’s house,
which was toward the North: and behold there sat women mourning for Tammuz.

15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee again,
and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

16 And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and
behold, at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar
were about five and twenty men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord,
and their faces toward the East, and they worshiped the sun, toward the East.

17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a small

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