1 On the fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the sovereign LORD fell on me there. 2 Then I looked, and saw a form that appeared to be a man. From what appeared to be his waist down was fire; and from his waist up looked bright, like glowing amber. 3 He reached out what appeared to be a hand, and grabbed a hold of me by a lock of the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me by the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where the seat of the idol that provokes to jealousy was. 4 Then I saw there the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision that I saw in the valley. 5 Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and there north of the gate of the altar was this idol of jealousy in the entrance. 6 He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, driving me far from my own sanctuary? But you will see even greater abominations." 7 He brought me to the entrance of the court. Then I looked and saw a hole in the wall. 8 He told me, "Son of man, dig into the wall." When I had dug into the wall, there was an entrance. 9 He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they are doing here." 10 So I went in and saw there was engraved on the wall every kind of creeping thing, and detestable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 There stood before them seventy elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each one had his censer in his hand with a fragrant cloud of incense wafting upward. 12 Then said he to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each one in his room of images? For they say, 'The LORD doesn't see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.'" 13 He told me, "You will see them do even great abominations." 14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of LORD's house. There sat the women weeping for the god Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these." 16 He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and there at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, with their faces toward the east. They were worshipping the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it a trivial issue to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations here? Should they also have filled the land with violence, and further provoked me to anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I will also deal with them in wrath; my eye will not spare or have pity on them. Even though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."