1 Então, no dia 17 de Setembro , durante o sexto ano do cativeiro do rei Jeconias, enquanto falava com os anciãos de Judá em minha casa, o poder do Senhor Deus caiu sobre mim.
2 Vi algo que parecia ser um homem - da cintura para baixo era feito de fogo, e para cima o seu aspecto era o de bronze brilhante, luzindo como fogo. Estendeu aquilo que me pareceu ser uma mão e pegou-me pelos cabelos. O Espírito levantou-me entre o céu e a Terra, e numa visão de Deus transportou-me até Jerusalém, até à entrada do portão norte, onde havia um grande ídolo que tinha provocado a ira do Senhor. De repente a glória do Deus de Israel apareceu ali, tal como a vira antes no vale.
5 E disse-me: Homem mortal, olha em direcção do norte. Então olhei, e com efeito, a norte do portão do altar, à entrada, estava o ídolo.
6 Acrescentou a seguir: Homem mortal, estás a ver o que eles estão a fazer? Vês os grandes pecados que o povo de Israel está a praticar aqui mesmo, para me afastar do meu santuário? Mas vou-te mostrar pecados ainda maiores do que estes!
7 Touxe-me até à porta do átrio do templo, e havia um buraco na parede.
8 Agora, abre mais aquele buraco na parede. Obedeci e apareceu uma porta.
9 Entra por essa porta e vê as coisas abomináveis que eles fazem aqui.
10 Entrei. As paredes estavam cobertas com pinturas de toda a espécie de serpentes, de répteis e de criaturas abomináveis, além de todos os vários ídolos adorados pelo povo de Israel. Setenta anciãos de Israel ali estavam de pé, diante das pinturas, e, com eles, Jazanias (filho de Safã); e todos adorando aquilo. Cada um segurava num incensário, cujo fumo se elevava acima das cabeças.
12 Então o Senhor disse-me: Homem mortal, vês de que está cheia a mente dos anciãos de Israel? E dizem: O Senhor não nos vê, já abandonou a Terra! E acrescentou: Vou mostrar-te pecados ainda maiores do que estes!
14 Levou-me ao portão norte do templo e ali estavam mulheres sentadas, a chorar por Tamuz .
15 Reparaste bem nisto? Pois vou mostrar-te coisas ainda mais abomináveis!
16 Trouxe-me depois para o pátio interior do templo, e ali, à entrada, entre o pórtico e o altar de bronze, estavam cerca de 25 homens de pé, de costas voltadas para o templo do Senhor, virados para o oriente e adorando o Sol!
17 Estás a ver isto? Para o povo de Israel tudo isto é como se nada fosse: o cometer estes terríveis pecados, levando a nação inteira para a adolatria, fazendo pouco de mim e acendendo a minha ira contra eles. Pelo que também procederei com furor. Não terei piedade nem pouparei seja quem for. Ainda que gritem por misericórdia, não os ouvirei.
1 And it came to pass 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 Sovereign Yahweh fell there on me.
2 Then I looked and saw a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
3 And 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 heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.
4 And, look, 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 look, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 And he said to me, Son of Man, do you see what they do? Even the great disgusting things that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great disgusting things.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and I looked and saw 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, look, a door.
9 And he said to me, Go in, and see the wicked disgusting things that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and look, every form of creeping things, and detestable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about.
11 And 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 chambers of imagery? For they say, Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
13 He also said to me, You will again see yet other great disgusting things which they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and look, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], O Son of Man? You will again see yet greater disgusting things than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and look, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], O Son of Man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, look, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath; my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.