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Ezekiel 8:17
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 8:17
New Catholic Bible
17 Then he said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not bad enough for the house of Judah to do the loathsome things they have done here? They have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger time after time. Observe how they put the branch to their nose.[a]
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- Ezekiel 8:17 The end of the verse probably refers to a practice in the worship of the sun. It consisted in covering the nostrils with sacred twigs in order not to contaminate the air at sunrise.