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But yet you will see still greater abominations.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts <i>and</i> detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are doing.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Yahweh which <i>was</i> toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He said to me, “Do you see <i>this</i>, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, <i>were</i> about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east; and they were <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He said to me, “Do you see <i>this</i>, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations which they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still more? For behold, they are sending forth the twig to their nose. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore, I also will do <i>this</i> in wrath: My eye will have no pity, nor will I spare; and they will cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>fire</i>; Gr <i>a man</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>electrum</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>facing north</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>worshiping</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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