18AND ALSO I I WILL ACT IN RAGE NOT IT WILL LOOK WITH COMPASSION EYE MY AND NOT I WILL SHOW PITY AND THEY WILL CALL OUT IN EARS MY A VOICE GREAT AND NOT I WILL HEAR <OBJ.> THEM 18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
1AND HE CALLED OUT IN EARS MY A VOICE GREAT <TO> SAYING THEY HAVE DRAWN NEAR [THE] PUNISHMENTS OF THE CITY AND EVERYONE [THE] WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION HIS [IS] IN HAND HIS Execution of the Idolaters 1Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”
2AND THERE! SIX MEN [WERE] COMING FROM [THE] DIRECTION OF [THE] GATE <THE> UPPER WHICH [IS] FACED NORTH -WARD AND EVERYONE [THE] WEAPON OF SHATTERING HIS [WAS] IN HAND HIS AND A MAN ONE [WAS] IN MIDST OF THEM CLOTHED LINEN<S> AND [THE] WRITING-CASE OF <THE> SCRIBE [WAS] AT HIPS HIS AND THEY CAME AND THEY STOOD BESIDE [THE] ALTAR OF <THE> BRONZE 2And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
3AND [THE] GLORY OF [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL IT WAS TAKEN UP FROM ON THE CHERUB WHICH IT HAD BEEN ON IT TO [THE] THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE AND HE CALLED TO THE MAN WHO WAS CLOTHED THE LINEN<S> WHOM <THE> WRITING-CASE OF <THE> SCRIBE [WAS] AT HIPS HIS 3Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.
4AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO HIM PASS IN [THE] MIDST OF THE CITY IN [THE] MIDST OF JERUSALEM AND YOU WILL MARK A MARK ON [THE] FOREHEADS OF THE PEOPLE WHO SIGH AND WHO GROAN ON ALL THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH ARE DONE IN [THE] MIDST OF IT 4“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
5AND TO THESE HE SAID IN EARS MY PASS IN THE CITY AFTER HIM AND STRIKE NOT LET IT LOOK WITH COMPASSION EYE YOUR AND MAY NOT YOU SHOW PITY 5And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
6OLD [MAN] YOUNG MAN AND VIRGIN AND LITTLE ONE[S] AND WOMEN YOU WILL KILL TO DESTRUCTION AND TO ANY PERSON WHOM [IS] ON HIM THE MARK MAY NOT YOU DRAW NEAR AND FROM SANCTUARY MY YOU WILL BEGIN AND THEY BEGAN WITH THE MEN <THE> OLD WHO [WERE] <TO> BEFORE THE HOUSE 6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
7AND HE SAID TO THEM MAKE UNCLEAN <OBJ.> THE HOUSE AND FILL <OBJ.> THE COURTS [THOSE] SLAIN GO FORTH AND THEY WENT FORTH AND THEY STRUCK IN THE CITY 7Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
8AND IT WAS WHEN WERE STRIKING THEY AND [WAS] REMAINING I AND I FELL! ON FACE MY AND I CRIED OUT AND I SAID ALAS! O LORD YAHWEH ¿ ABOUT TO DESTROY [ARE] YOU <OBJ.> ALL [THE] REMNANT OF ISRAEL WHEN POURING OUT YOU <OBJ.> RAGE YOUR ON JERUSALEM 8While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
9AND HE SAID TO ME [THE] INIQUITY OF [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH [IS] GREAT WITH MUCHNESS MUCHNESS AND IT HAS BEEN FILLED THE LAND BLOOD<S> AND THE CITY IT IS FULL PERVERSENESS FOR THEY HAVE SAID HE HAS FORSAKEN YAHWEH <OBJ.> THE LAND AND NOT YAHWEH [IS] SEEING 9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
10AND ALSO I NOT IT WILL LOOK WITH COMPASSION EYE MY AND NOT I WILL SHOW PITY CONDUCT THEIR ON OWN HEAD THEIR I WILL REQUITE 10But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
11AND THERE! THE MAN <THE> CLOTHED OF THE LINEN<S> WHOM THE WRITING-CASE [WAS] AT HIPS HIS [WAS] BRINGING BACK A WORD <TO> SAYING I HAVE DONE ACCORDING TO ALL THAT YOU COMMANDED ME 11Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”