6. He asked, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? Do you see the great abominations that the house of Israel is practicing here, so that I must depart from my sanctuary? You shall see even greater abominations!
7. Then he brought me to the entrance of the courtyard, and there I saw a hole in the wall.
8. Son of man, he ordered, dig through the wall. I dug through the wall—there was a doorway.
9. Go in, he said to me, and see the evil abominations they are doing here.
10. I went in and looked—figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts, all the idols of the house of Israel, pictured around the wall.
11. Before them stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel. Among them stood Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, each with censer in hand; a cloud of incense drifted upward.
12. Then he said to me: Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his idol chamber? They think: “The Lord cannot see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.”
13. He said: You will see them practicing even greater abominations.
14. Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord. There women sat and wept for Tammuz.