2. As I looked, I saw something that looked like a human. From the waist down its body looked like fire, and from the waist up its body looked like glowing metal.
3. It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the temple. That was where an idol that stirs up ⌊God’s⌋ anger was located.
4. There I saw the glory of Israel’s God as I did in the vision that I saw in the valley.
5. God said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked toward the north, and there in the entrance to the north gate beside the altar, I saw the idol that stirs up ⌊God’s⌋ anger.
6. He asked me, “Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? The people of Israel are doing very disgusting things here, things that will force me to go far away from my holy place. But you will see even more disgusting things.”
7. Then he took me to the entrance of the courtyard. As I looked, I saw a hole in the wall.
8. He said to me, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and I saw a door.
9. He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked, disgusting things that the people of Israel are doing here.”