¹ 第六年六月初五日，我坐在家中；犹大的众长老坐在我面前。在那里主耶和华的灵（原文是手）降在我身上。

² 我观看，见有形像彷佛火的形状，从他腰以下的形状有火，从他腰以上有光辉的形状，彷佛光耀的精金。

³ 他伸出彷佛一只手的样式，抓住我的一绺头发，灵就将我举到天地中间，在神的异象中，带我到耶路撒冷朝北的内院门口，在那里有触动主怒偶像的坐位，就是惹动忌邪的。

⁴ 谁知，在那里有以色列神的荣耀，形状与我在平原所见的一样。

⁵ 神对我说：人子啊，你举目向北观看。我就举目向北观看，见祭坛门的北边，在门口有这惹忌邪的偶像；

⁶ 又对我说：人子啊，以色列家所行的，就是在此行这大可憎的事，使我远离我的圣所，你看见了麽？你还要看见另有大可憎的事。

⁷ 他领我到院门口。我观看，见墙上有个窟窿。

⁸ 他对我说：人子啊，你要挖墙。我一挖墙，见有一门。

⁹ 他说：你进去，看他们在这里所行可憎的恶事。

¹⁰ 我进去一看，谁知，在四面墙上画着各样爬物和可憎的走兽，并以色列家一切的偶像。

¹¹ 在这些像前有以色列家的七十个长老站立，沙番的儿子雅撒尼亚也站在其中。各人手拿香炉，烟云的香气上腾。

¹² 他对我说：人子啊，以色列家的长老暗中在各人画像屋里所行的，你看见了麽？他们常说：耶和华看不见我们；耶和华已经离弃这地。

¹³ 他又说：你还要看见他们另外行大可憎的事。

¹⁴ 他领我到耶和华殿外院朝北的门口。谁知，在那里有妇女坐着，为搭模斯哭泣。

¹⁵ 他对我说：人子啊，你看见了麽？你还要看见比这更可憎的事。

¹⁶ 他又领我到耶和华殿的内院。谁知，在耶和华的殿门口、廊子和祭坛中间，约有二十五个人背向耶和华的殿，面向东方拜日头。

¹⁷ 他对我说：人子啊，你看见了麽？犹大家在此行这可憎的事还算为小麽？他们在这地遍行强暴，再三惹我发怒，他们手拿枝条举向鼻前。

¹⁸ 因此，我也要以忿怒行事，我眼必不顾惜，也不可怜他们；他们虽向我耳中大声呼求，我还是不听。

¹ It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.

² Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

³ He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

⁴ Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

⁵ Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

⁶ He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.

⁷ He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

⁸ Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

⁹ He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

¹⁰ So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

¹¹ There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

¹² Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

¹³ He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

¹⁵ Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.

¹⁶ He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

¹⁷ Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

¹⁸ Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.