⁷ Then he brought me to the entry of the courtyard. When I looked, I saw a hole in the wall. ⁸ He said to me, “·Human [^TSon of man], dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and saw an ·entrance [doorway].

⁹ Then he said to me, “Go in and see the ·hateful [detestable; abominable], ·evil [wicked] things they are doing here.” ¹⁰ So I entered and looked, and ·I saw [^Llook; ^Tbehold] every kind of crawling thing [Lev. 11:20] and hateful beast [^Cunclean animal, ritually] and all the idols of the ·people [^Lhouse] of Israel, ·carved [engraved] on the wall all around [^Csuch images were idolatrous; Deut. 4:16–18; Rom. 1:23]. ¹¹ Standing in front of these carvings and idols were seventy of the elders of [^Lthe house of] Israel and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each man had his ·pan for burning incense [censer] in his hand, and a ·sweet-smelling [fragrant] cloud of incense was rising.

¹² Then he said to me, “·Human [^TSon of man; 2:1], have you seen what the elders of [^Lthe house of] Israel are doing in the dark? Have you seen each man in the ·room [chamber; shrine] of his own ·idol [carved image]? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has ·left [abandoned; forsaken] the land.’” ¹³ He also said to me, “You will see even more ·hateful [detestable; abominable] things that they are doing.”