Ezekiel 8:14-18 - Have you seen this?

8:14-18

So the men have been castigated, but the women were no better! Tammuz was a Summerian god of vegetation, a fertility god. Sometimes women are presented as being superior to men. And sometimes they are! In the gospels, especially around the crucifixion, the women come out of it far better than the men. But we are all sinners, and women sin as much as men. Again we have the refrain that there is still worse to see.

Then we again get the sinfulness of men, with twenty five of them worshipping the sun. Worshipping the created instead of the creator.

Now idol worship does not come alone, it is not just a matter of men or women having some weird or ally habits. It is accompanied by obvious evil. In Jerusalem they had filled “the land with violence”. 

“Look at them putting the branch to their node!” The translation of this phrase is difficult, and it could mean they had become a stench to God, and this would fit with the following verse. Whatever the case, God is making clear to Ezekiel that He is perfectly justified in dealing with the people in the way that He was about to do. There would be judgement.