¹⁴ Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

^9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and ^(B)walk after other gods whom you do not know, ^10 (C)and then come and stand before Me in this house ^(D)which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? ¹¹ Has ^(E)this house, which is called by My name, become a ^(F)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.

⁵ Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

⁶ Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great ^(A)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”

¹⁶ So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, ^(A)between the porch and the altar, ^(B)were about twenty-five men ^(C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping ^(D)the sun toward the east.