Chapter 8
- 8:1
- 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.
- 8:2
- 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.
- 8:3
- 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.
- 8:4
- And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I
saw in the plain.
- 8:5
- 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.
- 8:6
- 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.
- 8:7
- And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the
wall.
- 8:8
- Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the
wall, behold a door.
- 8:9
- And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
- 8:10
- 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, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
- 8:11
- 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.
- 8:12
- 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.
- 8:13
- He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that
they do.
- 8:14
- 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.
- 8:15
- 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.
- 8:16
- 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.
- 8:17
- 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.
- 8:18
- 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.