Bible in Basic English
"Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do."
— Ezekiel 8:13, Bible in Basic English
“He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.”
So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.
And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.
And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.
Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord's house looking to the north; and there women were seated weeping for Tammuz.
Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.
And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.