Ezekiel 8:11-18

11Standing in front of them were aseventy belders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his ccenser in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising. 12Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘ dThe Lord does not see us; the Lord has eforsaken the land.’” 13And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing.”

14Then He brought me to the entrance of the fgate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. 15He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.”

16Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their gbacks to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and hthey were
I.e. worshiping
prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.
17He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have jfilled the land with violence and kprovoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose. 18Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and lthough they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”
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