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14 He brought me to the north gate of the Lord’s Temple, and some women were sitting there, weeping for the god Tammuz. 15 “Have you seen this?” he asked. “But I will show you even more detestable sins than these!”

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14 He brought me to the north gate of the Temple, and there sat women weeping for Tammuz,[a] their god.

15 “Have you seen this?” he asked. “But I will show you greater evils than these!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 8:14 there sat women weeping for Tammuz. The women wept for Tammuz, the god of fertility, because, according to Mesopotamian myths, he had been killed, and fertility had vanished with him.