Ezekiel 8:8
Good News Translation
He said, "Mortal man, break through the wall here." I broke through it and found a door.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to me, “Mortal, dig through the wall”; and when I dug through the wall, there was an entrance.

Contemporary English Version
God said, "Make this hole bigger." And when I did, I realized it was a doorway.

New American Bible
Son of man, he ordered, dig through the wall. I dug through the wall—there was a doorway.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Job 34:22 There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

Jeremiah 2:34 And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.

Jeremiah 23:24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

Amos 9:2,3 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered. . . .

Context
The Vision of Idolatry in the Temple
7And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall. 8And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.9And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here.…
Cross References
Isaiah 29:15
Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

Ezekiel 8:7
And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8:9
And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here.

Ezekiel 8:7
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