Ezequiel 8

1 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, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there. 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 stretched out 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 saw, 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 commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will 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."

When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.

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

10 So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall. 11 Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell 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 will again see more of the 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 I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these."

16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping 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. Behold, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them."

Te Mahi Mōrihariha i roto i te Temepara

1 Nā, i te ono o ngā tau, i te ono o ngā marama, i te rima o ngā rā o te marama, e noho ana ahau i roto i tōku whare, me te noho anō ngā kaumātua o Hūrā i tōku aroaro, nā, ka tau iho te ringa o te Ariki, o Ihowā, ki runga ki ahau i reira. 2 Nā, ka titiro atu ahau, nanā, ko tētahi āhua me te mea he ahi ki te titiro atu; i tōna hope ā whakararo, he ahi ki te titiro atu; i tōna hope anō ā whakarunga, he wherikotanga ki te titiro atu, he mea rite te kara ki tō te amipere. 3 Nā, ka totoro mai te āhua o te ringa, ā, hopukia ana ahau e ia i tētahi o ngā makawe o tōku mātenga. Kātahi ahau ka hāpainga atu e te wairua ki waenganui o te whenua, o te rangi, ā, kawea ana ahau e ia ki Hiruhārama, he whakakitenga hoki nā te Atua, ki te kūwaha o te kēti o tō roto marae e anga ana ki te raki; kei reira nei te nohoanga o te whakapakoko o te hae, e puta ai te hae. 4 Nā, i reira anō te korōria o te Atua o Īharaira, he pērā me te kitenga i kitea e ahau ki te mānia.

5 Kātahi ka mea ia ki ahau, "E te tama a te tangata, tēnā rā, anga atu ōu kanohi rā te ara ki te raki." Heoi, ka anga ōku kanohi rā te ara ki te raki, nanā, i te taha ki te raki, i te kūwaha o te āta, ko tēnei whakapakoko o te hae i te tomokanga atu.

6 Ā, ka mea ia ki ahau, "E te tama a te tangata, ka kite rānei koe i tā rātou e mea nei? Arā, i ngā mea whakarihariha nui e mahia nei e te whare o Īharaira ki konei, e matara ai ahau i tōku wāhi tapu? Otiia, tērā koe e kite anō i ētahi atu mea whakarihariha nunui."

7 Nā, ka kawea ahau e ia ki te kūwaha o te marae; ā, nō tāku tirohanga atu, nanā, ko tētahi puta i te taiepa. 8 Kātahi ia ka mea ki ahau, "E te tama a te tangata, tēnā, keria te taiepa." Ā, i tāku keringa i te taiepa, nā, ko tētahi kūwaha. 9 Ā, ka mea tērā ki ahau, "Haere ki roto, kia kite ai koe i ngā mea whakarihariha, i ngā mea kino e mahia nei e rātou ki konei." 10 Heoi, haere ana ahau ki roto, ā, ka kite; nā, ko ngā āhua katoa o ngā mea ngōkingōki, o ngā kararehe whakarihariha, me ngā whakapakoko katoa o te whare o Īharaira, he mea tuhituhi ki te taha o te whare ā taka noa, taka noa. 11 Ā, i ō rātou aroaro e tū ana e whitu tekau ngā tāngata, nō ngā kaumātua o te whare o Īharaira, ā, i waenganui o rātou e tū ana ko Iaatania tama a Hapana, he tahu whakakakara i te ringa o tēnei, o tēnei; ā, i kake whakarunga te kakara o te kapua o te whakakakara.

12 Kātahi ia ka mea ki ahau, "Kua kite rānei koe, e te tama a te tangata, i tā ngā kaumātua o te whare o Īharaira e mea nei i te pōuri, ia tangata, ia tangata, i ōna whare whakaahua? E kī ana hoki rātou, ‘E kore a Ihowā e kite i a tātou; kua mahue te whenua i a Ihowā.’ " 13 I mea mai anō ia ki ahau, "Tērā koe e kite anō i ētahi atu mea whakarihariha nunui e mahia ana e rātou."

14 Kātahi ahau ka kawea e ia ki te kūwaha o te kēti o te whare o Ihowā, e anga ana whaka te raki; nā, ko ngā wāhine e noho ana i reira, e tangi ana ki a Tāmutu. 15 Kātahi ia ka mea ki ahau, "Ka kite rānei koe i tēnei, e te tama a te tangata? Tērā koe e kite anō i ētahi mea whakarihariha nunui atu i ēnei."

16 Nā, ka kawea ahau e ia ki tō roto marae o te whare o Ihowā; nanā, i te kūwaha o te temepara o Ihowā, i te takiwā o te whakamahau, o te āta, ko ētahi tāngata, ki te whakaaro iho e rua tekau mā rima, ko ō rātou tuarā e anga ana ki te temepara o Ihowā, ko ō rātou mata ki te rāwhiti; e koropiko ana rātou ki te rā whaka te rāwhiti.

17 Kātahi ka mea ia ki ahau, "Ka kite rānei koe i tēnei, e te tama a te tangata? He mea māmā noa ake ianei tēnei ki te whare o Hūrā kia mahia e rātou ngā mea whakarihariha e mahia nei e rātou ki konei? Nā rātou hoki i kapi ai te whenua i te tutū, ā, hoki mai ana rātou ki te whakapātaritari i ahau. Nanā, kei te whakapā anō rātou i te manga ki tō rātou ihu. 18 Nā, ka mahi anō ahau i runga i te weriweri; e kore tōku kanohi e manawapā, e kore anō ahau e tohu; ahakoa nui tō rātou reo e karanga ai ki ōku taringa, e kore ahau e rongo ki a rātou."