5. Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.
6. And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, 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, 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 the vile abominations that they are committing here.”
10. So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.
11. And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and 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 in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
13. He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”
14. Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.