1. Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,
2. and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory.
3. The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell face down.
4. The glory of the Lord entered the temple through the gate facing east.
5. Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
6. While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.
7. He said: ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites for ever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name – neither they nor their kings – by their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings at their death.
8. When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.