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From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” <p class="reg"> So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> I saw this idol of jealousy. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” <p class="reg"> So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.” <A name="15"></a><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 north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose! <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>as glowing metal</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>gate of the altar</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>Tammuz</i>, meaning <i>Sprout of Life</i>, was a Sumerian god of fertility.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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