1以西結在異象中被提第六年六月五日，我坐在家中，猶大的眾長老也坐在我面前，在那裡主耶和華的靈降在我身上。
1It happened 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 Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
2我觀看，見有一形狀好像人的樣子，在那仿佛是他腰部以下，有火的樣子，在那仿佛是他腰部的以上有光輝的樣子，好像閃耀的金屬。
2Then 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他伸出一隻形狀像手的東西，抓住我的一綹頭髮；靈就把我提到天地之間，在 神的異象中，他把我帶往耶路撒冷，到聖殿北門內院的入口處，在那裡有令 神憤恨的偶像的座位。
3He 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 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不料，在那裡有以色列 神的榮耀，形狀與我在平原所見的一樣。
4Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
5耶路撒冷的偶像崇拜他對我說：“人子啊！舉目向北觀看。”我就舉目向北觀看，見祭壇門的北面，在入口的地方，有令 神憤恨的偶像。
5Then 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 see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6他又對我說：“人子啊！以色列家在這裡所行的，就是他們行這極其可憎的事，使我遠離我的聖所，你看見了嗎？但你還要看見更加可憎的事。”
6He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.
7他領我到院子的門口；我觀看，見牆上有一個洞。
7He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
8他對我說：“人子啊，挖牆吧！”我就挖牆，不料，見有一道門。
8Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
9他對我說：“你進去，看看他們在那裡所行可憎的惡事。”
9He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
10於是我進去觀看，見四圍的牆上刻著各種形狀的爬行物，和可憎惡的走獸，以及以色列家所有的偶像。
10So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
11站在這些像面前的有以色列家的七十個長老，沙番的兒子雅撒尼亞也站在他們中間；各人手裡拿著自己的香爐，香的煙往上升。
11There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst 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他對我說：“人子啊！以色列家的眾長老各在自己偶像的房間裡暗中所行的，你看見了嗎？他們說：‘耶和華看不見我們，耶和華已經離開這地了。’”
12Then 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他又對我說：“你還要看見他們行更加可憎的事。”
13He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
14他領我到耶和華殿朝北的門口，在那裡有些婦女坐著，為搭模斯哭泣。
14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
15他對我說：“人子啊，你看見了嗎？你還要看見比這些更可憎的事。”
15Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
16他又領我到耶和華殿的內院，在耶和華殿的門口，就是在走廊和祭壇中間，約有二十五個人，背向耶和華的殿，面向著東方；他們正在朝著東面叩拜太陽。
16He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and see, at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
17懲罰的警告他對我說：“人子啊，你看見了嗎？猶大家在這裡行這可憎的事，還算小事嗎？他們使這地充滿了強暴，再三惹我發怒；看哪！他們把樹枝拿到自己的鼻前。
17Then 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: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
18因此我要以烈怒待他們；我的眼必不顧惜，我也不憐恤；他們雖然在我耳中大聲呼求，我還是不聽他們。”
18Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.