Ezekiel 8:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord; women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵ Then he said to me, ‘Have you seen this, O mortal? You will see still greater abominations than these.’

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east, prostrating themselves to the sun towards the east.