Ezekiel 8:13 Again, he said, "You will see them doing things that are even more detestable."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Again, he said, "You will see them doing things that are even more detestable."

English Standard Version
He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

New American Standard Bible
And He said to me, "Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing."

King James Bible
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Again He said to me, "You will see even more detestable things, which they are committing."

International Standard Version
Then the Spirit told me, "You're about to see even more detestable practices that they're doing!"

American Standard Version
He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations which these commit.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said unto me, Yet again thou shalt see great abominations which they do.

Young's Literal Translation
And He saith unto me, 'Again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing.'

Cross References

Ezekiel 8:12
Then said he to me, Son of man, have you 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 sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the earth.

Ezekiel 8:14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:13-18 The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was attended with infamous practices; and the worshippers of the sun here described, are supposed to have been priests. The Lord appeals to the prophet concerning the heinousness of the crime; and lo, they put the branch to their nose, denoting some custom used by idolaters in honour of the idols they served. The more we examine human nature and our own hearts, the more abominations we shall discover; and the longer the believer searches himself, the more he will humble himself before God, and the more will he value the fountain open for sin, and seek to wash therein.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. every man in … chambers of … imagery—The elders ("ancients") are here the representatives of the people, rather than to be regarded literally. Mostly, the leaders of heathen superstitions laughed at them secretly, while publicly professing them in order to keep the people in subjection. Here what is meant is that the people generally addicted themselves to secret idolatry, led on by their elders; there is no doubt, also, allusion to the mysteries, as in the worship of Isis in Egypt, the Eleusinian in Greece, &c., to which the initiated alone were admitted. "The chambers of imagery" are their own perverse imaginations, answering to the priests' chambers in the vision, whereon the pictures were portrayed (Eze 8:10).

Lord … forsaken … earth—They infer this because God has left them to their miseries, without succoring them, so that they seek help from other gods. Instead of repenting, as they ought, they bite the curb [Calvin].