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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 8 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Ezekiel 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/7.htm" title="Ezekiel 7">◄</a> Ezekiel 8 <a href="../ezekiel/9.htm" title="Ezekiel 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/8-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Vision of Idolatry in the Temple<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards <i>there was</i> fire, and from his loins upwards <i>there was</i> as the appearance of amber. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he said to me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes toward the north, and, behold, <i>I looked</i> from the north toward the eastern gate. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what these do? They commit great abominations here so that I should keep away from my sanctuary: and thou shalt see yet greater iniquities.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he brought me to the porch of the court. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he said to me, Son of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a door. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechonias the son of Saphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he said to me, Thou hast seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord see not; The Lord has forsaken the earth. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said to me, Thou shalt see yet greater iniquities which these do.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold <i>there were</i> women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see <i>evil</i> practices greater then these.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces <i>turned</i> the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. <i>Is it</i> a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>