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They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his side; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>To the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and kill; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and killed in the city. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>While they were killing, and I was left alone, I fell prostrate on my face and cried out, “Ah Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>! will you destroy all who remain of Israel as you pour out your wrath upon Jerusalem?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has forsaken the land, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> does not see.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring down their deeds upon their heads.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Then the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his side, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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