¹² Then he said to me, “·Human [^TSon of man; 2:1], have you seen what the elders of [^Lthe house of] Israel are doing in the dark? Have you seen each man in the ·room [chamber; shrine] of his own ·idol [carved image]? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has ·left [abandoned; forsaken] the land.’” ¹³ He also said to me, “You will see even more ·hateful [detestable; abominable] things that they are doing.”

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of the Lord, where I saw women sitting and crying for Tammuz [^Ca Babylonian god of fertility and rain, whose annual death marked the change of seasons].