Ezekiel 8:12

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Summary

Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

Hast

Ezekiel 8:6

Ancients

In the

Ezekiel 8:7

Job 24:13

John 3:19

The lord seeth

Isaiah 29:15

General references

Jeremiah 16:17

Bible References

Hast

Then said he unto me, Son of man Canst thou see what they are doing, - the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, that I should go faraway from my sanctuary? Howbeit yet again, shalt thou see great abominations.

Ancients

and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan, who stood in their midst were standing before them, even every man with his censer in his hand, - and the fragrance of the cloud of incense ascending. le

Then came there unto me men, of the elders of Israel, - and sat before me -

And it came to pass in the seventh year in the fifth month, on the tent of the month, that there came in men of the elders of Israel to enquire of Yahweh, - and they sat before me.

For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!

In the

So he brought me into the opening of the court, - and I looked, and lo! a single hole in the wall.

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

And, this, is the judgment: That, the light, hath come into the world, - and men loved, rather the darkness than the light, for, wicked, were their, works.

The lord seeth

And he said unto me the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, is exceeding, great, and the land is filled with shed blood, and the city is full of over-reaching, - for they have said. Yahweh hath forsaken the land, - and Yahweh doth not see.

Is not, GOD, in the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high.

And they say - How doth GOD know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

Alas! for them who would fain have been too deep for Yahweh by giving secret counsel, - and therefore in the dark, have been their doings, and they have said Who can see us? and - Who can understand us?

General references

For mine own eyes are upon all their ways, they have not been hid from my face - neither hath their iniquity been concealed from being straight before mine eyes.