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EZEKIEL ยท Chapter 8
8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah
sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from
the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even
upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of
mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven,
and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner
gate that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provokes to jealousy.
8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according
to the vision that I saw in the plain.
8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and
behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the
entry.
8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, see you what they do?
even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that
I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you
shall see greater abominations.
8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold a hole in the wall.
8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when
I had dug in the wall, behold a door.
8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations
that they do here.
8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things,
and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed
upon the wall round about.
8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went
up.
8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his
imagery? for they say, the LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the
earth.
8:13 He said also unto me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater
abominations that they do.
8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house
which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
8:15 Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you
yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.
8:16 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 five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple
of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun
toward the east.
8:17 Then he said unto me, Have you seen this, O 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
returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their
nose.
8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud
voice, yet will I not hear them.
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