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of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
25
Destruction cometh; and they shall
seek peace, and
there shall be
none.
26
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be
upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the ancients.
27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their
way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I
am
the L
ORD
.
CHAPTER 8
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month,
in the fifth
day
of the month,
as
I sat in
mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon
me.
2
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins
even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour
of amber.
3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the
spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where
was
the seat of the
image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
was
there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted
up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of
jealousy in the entry.
6
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do?
even
the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my
sanctuary? but turn thee yet again,
and
thou shalt see greater abominations.
7
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold
a door.
9
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10
So
I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the
idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11
And there stood before them
seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the
son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in
the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The L
ORD
seeth us not; the L
ORD
hath forsaken the earth.
13
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,
and
thou shalt see greater abominations that they
do.
14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the L
ORD
’S house which
was
toward the north;
and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen
this,
O son of man? turn thee yet again,
and
thou shalt
see greater abominations than these.
16
And he brought me into the inner court of the L
ORD
’S house,
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