⁷ And he brought me to the doorway of the courtyard, and I saw, and look! A hole in the wall. ⁸ And he said to me, “Son of man,^[a] dig now^[b] through the wall.” And I dug through the wall, and look! There was a doorway. ⁹ And he said to me, “Come and see the detestable things, the evil that they are doing^[c] here. ¹⁰ And I came, and I saw, and look, all kinds of creatures^[d] and detestable beasts;^[e] and all of the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall all around.^{[f] 11} And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing before them.^[g] Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up. ¹² And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man,^[h] what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for they are saying, ‘Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.’” ¹³ And he said to me, “Still you will see again^[i] greater detestable things that they are doing.”