6. “Slay to destruction old, young men, maidens and children and women, but do not come near anyone upon whom is the mark, and begin at My set-apart place.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the House.
7. And He said to them, “Defile the House, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and smote in the city.
8. And as they were smiting them it came to be that I alone was left. And I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Master יהוה! Are You destroying all the remnant of Yisra’ĕl in pouring out Your wrath on Yerushalayim?”
9. And He said to me, “The crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city filled with that which is warped. For they say, ‘יהוה has forsaken the land, and יהוה is not seeing!’
10. “But as for Me, My eye shall not pardon, nor would I spare, I shall recompense their deeds on their own head.”
11. And see, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink-horn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”