Ezekiel 8:5-16

JuliaSmith(i) 5 And he said to me, Son of man, lift up now thine eyes the way of the north. And I lifter up mine eyes the way of the north, and behold, from the north at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entrance. 6 And he said to me, Son of man, west thou what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are doing here, to go far off from my holy place? And thou shalt yet turn back, thou shalt see great abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door of the enclosure, and I saw, and behold, one hole in the wall. 8 And he said to me, Son of man, break thou now, into the wall: and I broke through into the wall, and behold, one door. 9 And he said to me, Come and see the evil abominations which they are doing here. 10 And I came and saw, and behold, every form of creeping thing, and beast of abomination, and all the blocks of the house of Israel, delineated upon the wall round about, round about 11 And seventy men from the old men of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, stood in the midst of them, standing before them, and each his censer in his hand; and a rich cloud of incense went up. 12 And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man, what the old men of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, a man in the chambers of his images? for they are saying, Jehovah sees us not; Jehovah forsook the earth. 13 And he said to me, Thou shalt turn back yet; thou shalt see great abominations which they are doing. 14 And he brought me to the door of the gate of the house of Jehovah which was to, the north; and behold, there women sat weeping for Tammuz. 15 And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man? yet shalt thou turn back, thou shalt see abominations great above these. 16 And he brought me to the enclosure of the house of Jehovah within, and behold, a door of the temple of Jehovah, and between the porch and between the altar, about twenty and five men, their backs to the temple, and their faces to the east; and they worshiping the east to the sun.