Verse 18
The Lord promised to deal with the Jerusalemites in His wrath and not to pity or spare them even though they would cry to Him loudly for mercy. He would not listen to them.
We must remember that what Ezekiel saw he saw in a vision (Ezekiel 8:3). Therefore it may not be that the abominations he saw were really taking place in Jerusalem just as he saw them in his vision. The practices he saw represented to him the rampant idolatry of all the people, the civic leaders, the women, and the priests. The exclusive worship of Yahweh had broken down completely in the "holy" city.
"The principle crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry." [Note: Tertullian, "on Idolatry," in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, 3:61.]
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