14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the (A)gate of the Lords house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for [a]Tammuz. 15 And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these!”

16 Then He brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lords house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their (B)backs to the temple of the Lord while their faces were toward the east; and (C)they were [b]prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 8:14 I.e., a Babylonian god
  2. Ezekiel 8:16 I.e., worshiping

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