7. Then He brought me to the door of the court. And I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
8. And He said to me, “Son of man, please dig into the wall.” And when I dug into the wall I saw a door.
9. And He said to me, “Go in, and see the evil abominations which they are doing there.”
10. And I went in and looked and saw all kinds of creeping creatures, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Yisra’ĕl, carved all around on the walls.
11. And facing them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra’ĕl, and in their midst stood Ya‛azanyahu son of Shaphan. Each one had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12. And He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Yisra’ĕl are doing in the dark, each one in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘יהוה does not see us, יהוה has forsaken the land.’ ”
13. And He said to me, “You are to see still greater abominations which they are doing.”
14. And He brought me to the door of the north gate of the House of יהוה, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
15. Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You are to see still greater abominations than these.”
16. And He brought me into the inner court of the House of יהוה. And there, at the door of the Hĕḵal of יהוה, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the Hĕḵal of יהוה and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing themselves eastward to the sun.
17. And He said to me, “Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a small matter to the house of Yehuḏah to do the abominations which they have done here? For they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me. And see, they are putting the branch to My nose.
18. “Therefore I shall indeed deal in wrath. My eye shall not pardon nor would I spare. And they shall cry in My ears with a loud voice, but I shall not hear them.”