1 Então me gritou aos ouvidos com grande voz, dizendo: Fazei chegar os intendentes da cidade, cada um com as suas armas destruidoras na mão.

2 E eis que vinham seis homens a caminho da porta superior, que olha para o norte, e cada um com a sua arma destruidora na mão, e entre eles um homem vestido de linho, com um tinteiro de escrivão à sua cintura; e entraram, e se puseram junto ao altar de bronze.

3 E a glória do Deus de Israel se levantou de sobre o querubim, sobre o qual estava, indo até a entrada da casa; e clamou ao homem vestido de linho, que tinha o tinteiro de escrivão à sua cintura.

4 E disse-lhe o Senhor: Passa pelo meio da cidade, pelo meio de Jerusalém, e marca com um sinal as testas dos homens que suspiram e que gemem por causa de todas as abominações que se cometem no meio dela.

5 E aos outros disse ele, ouvindo eu: Passai pela cidade após ele, e feri; não poupe o vosso olho, nem vos compadeçais.

6 Matai velhos, jovens, virgens, meninos e mulheres, até exterminá-los; mas a todo o homem que tiver o sinal não vos chegueis; e começai pelo meu santuário. E começaram pelos homens mais velhos que estavam diante da casa.

7 E disse-lhes: Contaminai a casa e enchei os átrios de mortos; saí. E saíram, e feriram na cidade.

8 Sucedeu, pois, que, havendo-os ferido, e ficando eu sozinho, caí sobre a minha face, e clamei, e disse: Ah! Senhor Deus! Dar-se-á caso que destruas todo o restante de Israel, derramando a tua indignação sobre Jerusalém?

9 Então me disse: A maldade da casa de Israel e de Judá é grandíssima, e a terra se encheu de sangue e a cidade se encheu de perversidade; porque dizem: O Senhor abandonou a terra, e o Senhor não vê.

10 Pois, também, quanto a mim, não poupará o meu olho, nem me compadecerei; sobre a cabeça deles farei recair o seu caminho.

11 Eis que o homem que estava vestido de linho, a cuja cintura estava o tinteiro, tornou com a resposta, dizendo: Fiz como me mandaste.

1 He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lies toward the north, and every man a weapon for slaughter in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.

3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;

4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in its midst.

5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through the city, and kill: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity:

6 Slay utterly old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the elders who were before the house.

7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you destroy all the rest of Israel in your pouring out of your fury upon Jerusalem?

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.

10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their heads.

11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.