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Ezekiel 9
⁴ The Lord said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst."
⁵ But to the others He said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.
⁶ Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary." So they started with the elders who were before the temple.
⁷ And He said to them, "Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.
⁸ As they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out saying, "Alas, Lord God! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?"
⁹ Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ’The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’
¹⁰ But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads."
¹¹ Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case reported, saying, "I have done just as You have commanded me."
Ezekiel 10
¹ Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim something like a sapphire stone, in appearance resembling a throne, appeared above them.
² And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, "Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And he entered in my sight.
³ Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.