Ezekiel 9:5-11

5But to the others He said in my 1presence, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare. 62Utterly 3kill old men, young men, female virgins, little children, and women, but do not 4touch any person on whom is the mark; and you shall 5start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the 6elders who were before the 7temple. 7He also said to them, “8Defile the 9temple and fill the courtyards with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and struck and killed the people in the city. 8And as they were striking the people and I alone was left, I 10fell on my face and cried out, 11saying, “12Oh, Lord 13God! Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel 14by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

9Then He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is 15filled with blood, and the city is 16full of perversion; for 17they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ 10But as for Me, 18My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but 19I will bring their conduct upon their heads.”

11Then behold, the man clothed in linen, at whose waist was the scribe’s kit, 20reported, saying, “I have done just as You have commanded me.”