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Then God[a] said to me, “O mortal, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.(A) He said to me, “Mortal, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? Yet you will see still greater abominations.”(B)

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  1. 8.5 Heb he

And he said to me, “Son of man,[a] lift up now[b] your eyes toward the north.”[c] And I lifted up my eyes toward the north,[d] and, look, there was to the north of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy at the entrance. And he said to me, “Son of man,[e]Do you see[f] what they are doing—great detestable things that the house of Israel is committing[g] here so as to drive me from[h] my sanctuary, and yet you will see again[i] greater[j] detestable things.”

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  1. Ezekiel 8:5 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 8:5 Particle of entreaty, “please/ please now”
  3. Ezekiel 8:5 Literally “to the way of the north”
  4. Ezekiel 8:5 Literally “to the way of the north”
  5. Ezekiel 8:6 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  6. Ezekiel 8:6 Literally “Are you seeing?”
  7. Ezekiel 8:6 Or “doing”
  8. Ezekiel 8:6 Hebrew “from upon”
  9. Ezekiel 8:6 Literally “you will return you will see”
  10. Ezekiel 8:6 Or “worse”