Yechezkel 8 יחזקאל ח׳

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Yehuda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from what appeared to be his loins downward, fire; and from his loins upward, as it were the appearance of brightness, something like the colour of electrum.

And he put out the shape of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and a wind lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Yerushalayim, to the door of the inner gate that looks towards the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

And, behold, the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

And he said to me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? the great abominations that the house of Yisra᾽el commits here, to drive me far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt see yet again greater abominations.

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold a door.

And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they are doing here.

So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping thing, and abominable beast, and all the idols of the house of Yisra᾽el, traced upon the wall round about.

And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra᾽el and in the midst of them stood Ya᾽azanyahu, the son of Shafan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Then he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Yisra᾽el are doing in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord sees us not; the Lord has forsaken the land.

He said also to me. Thou shalt see yet again greater abominations that they do.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Then he said to me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt see yet again greater abominations than these.

And he brought me 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 twenty five men, with their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east; and they were prostrating themselves towards the sun eastwards.

Then he said to me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Yehuda that they commit the abominations which they commit here? but they also have filled the land with violence, and have provoked me even further to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Therefore I too will deal in fury: 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.