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12 Then the Lord said to me: “Son of dust, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in their minds? For they say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us; he has gone away!’” 13 Then he added, “Come, and I will show you greater sins than these!”

14 He brought me to the north gate of the Temple, and there sat women weeping for Tammuz,[a] their god.

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  1. Ezekiel 8:14 there sat women weeping for Tammuz. The women wept for Tammuz, the god of fertility, because, according to Mesopotamian myths, he had been killed, and fertility had vanished with him.

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