1 It came about in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered LoʀᴅGoᴅ fell on me there. 2 Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of 1Lit firea man; from His loins and downward there was the AEzek 1:27appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance BEzek 1:4, 27of 2Or electrumglowing metal. 3 He stretched out the form of a hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the AEzek 3:12; 11:1Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the 1Lit facing northnorth gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which BEx 20:4; Deut 32:16provokes to jealousy, was located. 4 And behold, the AEzek 1:28; 3:22, 23glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, AJer 3:2; Zech 5:5raise your eyes now toward the north.” So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this BPs 78:58; Jer 7:30; 32:34; Ezek 8:3idol of jealousy at the entrance. 6 And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great A2 Kin 23:4, 5; Ezek 5:11; 8:9, 17abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.”

7 Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 8 He said to me, “Son of man, now AIs 29:15dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance. 9 And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around. 11 Standing in front of them were ANum 11:16, 25; Luke 10:1seventy BJer 19:1elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his CNum 16:17, 35censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising. 12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘APs 14:1; Is 29:15; Ezek 9:9The Loʀᴅ does not see us; the Loʀᴅ has BPs 10:11forsaken the land.’ ” 13 And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing.”

14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the AEzek 44:4; 46:9gate of the Loʀᴅ’s house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. 15 He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.”

16 Then He brought me into the inner court of the Loʀᴅ’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Loʀᴅ, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their A2 Chr 29:6; Jer 2:27; Ezek 23:39backs to the temple of the Loʀᴅ and their faces toward the east; and BDeut 4:19; 17:3; Job 31:26-28; Jer 44:17they were 1I.e. worshipingprostrating themselves eastward toward the sun. 17 He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have AEzek 7:11, 23; 9:9; Amos 3:10; Mic 2:2filled the land with violence and BJer 7:18, 19; Ezek 16:26provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose. 18  “Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and AIs 1:15; Jer 11:11; Mic 3:4; Zech 7:13though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”