Ezekiel 8

Ezekiel 8:1

That the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

The Spirit of the Lord was powerful with and upon me, in a divine rapture and vision.

Ezekiel 8:2

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 upwards, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

Then I beheld, and, lo, there was shewed to me the likeness of a human shape; whose lower parts from the loins downward were as the colour of fire, and from the loins upward of a clear and pleasing brightness like unto amber; to signify that that God, who is graciously majestical in himself, is terrible in the revenges of his wilful enemies.

Ezekiel 8:3

And he put forth the form of a 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. And from this appearance of a human shape, there was a hand put forth, which took me, as it seemed unto me in this vision, by a lock of the hair of mine head; and methought, the Spirit of God lifted me up betwixt the earth and the heaven, and brought me, not in body but in vision, to Jerusalem, to the very door of the inner gate of the common court: even that gate, which looketh towards the north, where was the shrine of that abominable idol of Baal set up, which provoked the just jealousy of the Almighty.

Ezekiel 8:4

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was the re according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

And, behold, there I saw the same representation of the glory of the God of Israel, which had been formerly shewed unto me in the vision, which I had by the river of Chebar.

Ezekiel 8:8

Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, it is too much that thou seest this one shameful idol, but thou shalt yet see many more; and, besides this open abomination, thou shalt see hidden and secret; dig now in the wall; and when I had, in my vision, digged in the wall, behold, a door seemed to appear.

Ezekiel 8:11

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.

And there stood before those idols, all the judges and rulers of Israel, which God had appointed to be seventy in number; and, in the midst of them, the president of that senate Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand, in which he had offered incense to all the abominable idols; and the fume thereof went up, as a thick cloud, for the abundance thereof.

Ezekiel 8:12

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 Loud seeth us not.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of Israel, who should be good examples of piety and holiness to the rest, do in this secret, retired room, unseen, unnoted; how they heap up gods to themselves, every one according to his own vain imagination? For they say, Tush, not only are we hid from the eyes of men, but even the eyes of the Lord himself desery us not.

Ezekiel 8:14

And behold there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

And, behold, there sat women, after the manner of the Egyptian idolatry, bewailing the loss of Osiris, the husband of their

Ezekiel 8:17

And, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

And, lo, they put forth accursed branches of several wickednesses, to the just provocation of God’s anger unto their own destruction.