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.
02 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.
03 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 looketh toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
04 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
was there, according to the vision that I saw in
the plain.
05 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up
thine 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.
06 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest
thou what they do? even the great abominations
that the house of Israel committeth here, that I
should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations.
07 And he brought me to the door of the court;
and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
08 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in
the wall: and when I had digged in the wall,
behold a door.
09 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the
wicked abominations that they do here.
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.
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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.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou
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 seeth us not; the
Lord hath forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
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.
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O
son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations than these.
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.
17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou 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.
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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