Ezekiel 9:1–4

VISION OF SLAUGHTER IN JERUSALEM

9 Then he called loudly in my hearing, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.” 2 And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate,g which faces north, each with a war club in his hand. There was another man among them, clothed in linen,h carrying writing equipment. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

3 Then the glory of the God of Israeli rose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment. 4 “Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheadsj of the men who sigh and groank over all the detestable practices committed in it.”