5. And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. And see, the esteem of יהוה filled the House.
6. And I heard someone speaking to me from the House, while a man stood beside me.
7. And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl forever, and the house of Yisra’ĕl shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places.
8. “When they placed their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My set-apart Name by the abominations which they have done. So I consumed them in My displeasure.
9. “Now let them put their whoring and the corpses of their sovereigns far away from Me, and I shall dwell in their midst forever.
10. “Son of man, explain the House to the house of Yisra’ĕl, and when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the measurements.