1 我听见他大声呼叫说： "惩罚这城的啊！ 你们要近前来， 各人手里拿着灭命的武器。" 2 忽然， 有六个人从朝北的上门那边走来， 各人手里拿着杀人的武器； 他们中间有一个人身穿细麻布衣服， 腰间带着墨盒子； 他们进来， 站在铜祭坛旁边。 3 以色列 神的荣耀本来是在基路伯上面的， 现在从那里移到殿的门槛； 耶和华把那身穿细麻布衣服， 腰间带着墨盒子的人召来， 4 对他说： "你要走遍耶路撒冷全城， 那些因城中所行的一切可憎的事而叹息悲哀的人， 你要在他们的额上画个记号。" 5 我又听见他对其余的人说： "你们要跟随他走遍那城， 进行杀戮； 你们的眼不要顾惜， 你们也不要怜恤。 6 你们要从我的圣所开始， 把老年人、少年人、少女、孩童和妇女都杀尽灭绝， 只是那些额上有记号的人， 你们都不可伤害。"于是他们从殿前那些长老开始杀戮。 7 他又对他们说： "你们要玷污这殿， 使这些院子充满被杀的人； 你们出去吧！ "于是他们出去， 在城中进行杀戮。 8 他们杀戮的时候， 只留下我一个人， 我就脸伏在地， 呼叫说： "哎， 主耶和华啊！ 难道你要向耶路撒冷倾倒你的烈怒， 使所有以色列余剩的人都灭绝么？" 9 他对我说： "以色列家和犹大家罪大恶极， 地上充满血腥， 城内充满不义， 因为他们说： ‘耶和华已经离开这地， 他看不见我们了！ ’ 10 因此， 我的眼必不顾惜， 我也必不怜恤； 我要把他们所行的报应在他们的头上。" 11 那身穿细麻布衣服， 腰间带着墨盒子的人回报这事， 说： "我已经照着你所吩咐我的行了。"

1 And He crieth in mine ears -- a loud voice -- saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.`2 And lo, six men are coming from the way of the upper gate, that is facing the north, and each his slaughter-weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst is clothed with linen, and a scribe`s inkhorn at his loins, and they come in, and stand near the brazen altar.3 And the honour of the God of Israel hath gone up from off the cherub, on which it hath been, unto the threshold of the house.4 And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe`s inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.`5 And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;6 aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.`7 And they begin among the aged men who [are] before the house, and He saith unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.` And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city.8 And it cometh to pass, as they are smiting, and I -- I am left -- that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, art Thou destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Thy pouring out Thy wrath on Jerusalem?`9 And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.10 And I also, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.`11 And lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins [is] the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, `I have done as Thou hast commanded me.`