¹² Then said he 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 doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

⁹ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

¹⁵ Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

¹¹ He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

¹² For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

¹⁹ This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

¹ It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

¹ Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

¹⁷ Then 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.

¹⁵ Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these.

¹¹ 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.

⁶ He said to me, Son of man, see you 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 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

⁸ Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

⁷ They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."

⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?

⁹ He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

¹¹ They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

¹³ "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

¹² "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹³ You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?