CAB(i)
9 And He said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.
10 So I went in and looked, and I beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.
11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechoniah the son of Shaphan 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.
12 And He said to me, You have 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 does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.
13 And He said to me, You shall see even greater iniquities than these.
14 And He brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and behold there were women sitting there lamenting for Tammuz.
15 And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen; but you shall yet see evil practices even greater then these.
16 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 turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.
17 And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to practice the iniquities which they have practiced here? For they have filled the land with iniquity; and behold, these are as scorners.