WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.260 Chapter Eight And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, 00:06.700 --> 00:10.600 in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of 00:10.600 --> 00:14.520 Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 00:15.380 --> 00:20.020 Then I beheld, and lo, a likeness, as the appearance of fire, from the 00:20.020 --> 00:25.100 appearance of his loins even downward, fire, and from his loins even upward, 00:25.560 --> 00:28.660 as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.500 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head, 00:34.760 --> 00:39.460 and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in 00:39.460 --> 00:43.860 the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh 00:43.860 --> 00:49.540 toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to 00:49.540 --> 00:49.860 jealousy. 00:50.580 --> 00:56.060 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I 00:56.060 --> 00:57.000 saw in the plain. 00:58.020 --> 01:03.100 Then he said unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the 01:03.100 --> 01:03.480 north. 01:04.020 --> 01:08.860 So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the 01:08.860 --> 01:12.040 gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 01:12.880 --> 01:17.280 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? 01:17.800 --> 01:22.380 Even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should 01:22.380 --> 01:28.240 go far off from my sanctuary, but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater 01:28.240 --> 01:29.160 abominations. 01:29.600 --> 01:33.420 And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, behold, 01:33.520 --> 01:34.340 a hole in the wall. 01:34.740 --> 01:38.480 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. 01:39.320 --> 01:42.660 And when I had digged in the wall, behold, a door. 01:43.280 --> 01:48.280 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 01:48.980 --> 01:53.440 So I went in and saw, and behold, every form of creeping things, 01:53.440 --> 01:59.020 and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the 01:59.020 --> 01:59.960 wall round about. 02:00.680 --> 02:04.200 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel. 02:04.700 --> 02:10.200 And in the midst of them stood Jeazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his 02:10.200 --> 02:13.540 censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. 02:14.340 --> 02:18.720 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the 02:18.720 --> 02:20.300 house of Israel do in the dark? 02:20.300 --> 02:23.100 Every man in the chambers of his imagery. 02:23.960 --> 02:26.620 For they say, The Lord seeth us not. 02:27.060 --> 02:28.920 The Lord hath forsaken the earth. 02:29.480 --> 02:34.600 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations 02:34.600 --> 02:35.380 that they do. 02:36.000 --> 02:40.000 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house, which was toward the 02:40.000 --> 02:40.280 north. 02:40.960 --> 02:44.200 And behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 02:45.020 --> 02:48.680 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? 02:49.220 --> 02:53.680 Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 02:54.560 --> 02:57.240 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house. 02:57.720 --> 03:01.600 And behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar 03:01.600 --> 03:05.520 were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the 03:05.520 --> 03:07.560 Lord, and their faces toward the east. 03:08.140 --> 03:10.200 And they worshipped the sun toward the east. 03:10.960 --> 03:14.620 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? 03:15.340 --> 03:19.340 Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which 03:19.340 --> 03:20.160 they commit here? 03:20.900 --> 03:25.160 For they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me 03:25.160 --> 03:25.780 to anger. 03:26.580 --> 03:29.360 And, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 03:30.660 --> 03:33.060 Therefore will I also deal in fury. 03:33.840 --> 03:36.920 Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. 03:37.500 --> 03:42.280 And though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.