Ezekiel 9 And He cries in mine ears--a loud voice--saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.'"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And He cries in mine ears--a loud voice--saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.'" ² And lo, six men are coming from the way of the upper gate, that is facing the north, and each his slaughter-weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst is clothed with linen, and a scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and they come in, and stand near the brazen altar." ³ And the honor of the Elohim of Israel has gone up from off the cherub, on which it has been, unto the threshold of the house." ⁴ And He calls unto the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Yahweh said unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'" ⁵ And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye does not pity, nor do you spare;" ⁶ aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, you do slay--to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark you do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary you begin.'" ⁷ And they begin among the aged men who [are] before the house, and He said unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.' And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city." ⁸ And it comes to pass, as they are smiting, and I--I am left--that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, `Ah, Lord Yahweh, are You destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Your pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?'" ⁹ And He said unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city has been full of perverseness, for they have said:Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh is not seeing." ¹⁰ And I also, Mine eye does not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.'" ¹¹ And lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins [is] the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, `I have done as You have commanded me.'"