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Ezekiel 9

9 Then I heard Yahweh shout, “You who perform public executions within the city of Jerusalem, approach! Arm yourselves with your lethal weapons.” 2 Suddenly, I noticed that six men were arriving from the direction of the upper gated entrance to the temple courtyard—that is, the one that faces north. Each one of them had armed himself with a deadly and destructive weapon. Among them stood one man who wore linen clothing, and he had strapped a writing kit to his waist, such as a scribe carries. They entered the temple courtyard and positioned themselves beside the bronze altar.

3 Then the glorious brilliance that showed that the God of Israel was with me ascended above the winged beings over which it had previously rested, and it moved to the very doorstep of Yahweh’s temple. Then Yahweh addressed the man who wore the linen clothing, who also had strapped the scribal writing kit to his waist. 4 Yahweh said to him, “Proceed throughout the city of Jerusalem. As you do, mark the foreheads of every person who laments and grieves all the disgusting and inappropriate things that the people are doing inside the city with the letter ‘X.’ ”

5 While I was listening, Yahweh said to the five other men, “Follow that man through the city and kill everyone he does not mark. Do not allow yourself to feel such compassion toward them that you restrain yourself from harming them. 6 Anyone you come across—old people, young people, or children—kill them all! But remember! You must not harm anyone whose forehead has the letter ‘X’ on it. Now, begin at my temple.” So they began with the elders who were prostrating themselves in worship of the sun in front of Yahweh’s temple.

7 Then Yahweh said to the five men, “Ritually desecrate my temple by filling its two courtyards with the dead bodies of the people you kill! Now, move out!” So they went out and started killing people in the city. 8 And so, as the six men went out killing, I remained there alone. I threw myself face down on the ground and exclaimed, “Oh, Sovereign Yahweh! Are you going to completely eradicate the Israelite people as you vent your anger against the people of Jerusalem? Those living in this city are all that remain of the Israelite people!”

9 He answered me, “The people of Israel and Judah have committed innumerable heinous injustices. Everywhere they live, these people behave violently, and this very city is brimming with corrupt and perverse people! After all, they speculate by saying, ‘Yahweh has left his home in the temple and vacated the land of Israel.’ They also reason with themselves, ‘Surely, Yahweh cannot see us.’ ” 10 Therefore, I myself also will not have such compassion for them that I restrain myself from justly punishing them. Instead, I will hold them accountable for their lifestyles.”

11 At that moment, the man who wore the linen clothing, who also had strapped the scribal kit to his waist, returned. He reported, “I have done exactly as you commanded.”

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