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12 The Lord said, ‘Son of man, look at the wicked things that Israel's leaders are doing! They are doing them secretly in the dark. Each of them has a room where they worship their images of idols. They say, “The Lord does not see us! The Lord has gone away from our land!” ’

13 The Lord said to me, ‘You will see even worse things that they are doing.’

14 Then he took me to entrance at the north gate of the temple. I saw some women who were sitting there. They were weeping because the god Tammuz was dead.[a]

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  1. 8:14 Tammuz was a false god that the Babylonian people worshipped. Every year, Babylonian women would remember his death and they would weep. Now Ezekiel could see that Israelite women were also doing this in the Lord's temple.