Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 9:6

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4 and following) And the Lord said to him: Go through the middle of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who groan and lament over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. And to the others he said while I was listening: Go through the city after him and…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

6Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

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4and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

5And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy.

— Ezekiel 9:6 —

7And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite.

8And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

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