¹⁷ You also took ^(A)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^(B)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.

⁵ Then he said to me, ^(A)“Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of ^(B)the altar gate, in the entrance, was this ^(C)image of jealousy. ⁶ And he said to me, “Son of man, ^(D)do you see what they are doing, ^(E)the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, ^(F)to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

⁷ And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. ⁸ Then he said to me, “Son of man, ^(G)dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. ⁹ And he said to me, “Go in, and see ^(H)the vile abominations that they are committing here.” ¹⁰ So I went in and saw. And there, ^(I)engraved on the wall all around, was ^(J)every form of ^(K)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. ¹¹ And before them stood ^(L)seventy men of ^(M)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^(N)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^(O)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. ¹² Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing ^(P)in the dark, each ^(Q)in his room of pictures? For they say, ^(R)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” ¹³ He said also to me, ^(S)“You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

¹⁴ Then he brought me to ^(T)the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵ Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^(U)son of man? ^(V)You will see still greater abominations than these.”

¹⁶ And he brought me into ^(W)the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^(X)between the ^(Y)porch and ^(Z)the altar, were about twenty-five men, ^(AA)with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^(AB)the sun toward the east.