⁷ He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall. ⁸ He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

⁹ He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.” ¹⁰ So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure^[a] of creeping thing and beast—detestable images^[b]—and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.^{[c] 11} Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel^[d] (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors^[e] from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

¹² He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images?^[f] For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’” ¹³ He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”