Ezekiel 9:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Thereupon, I saw six men approaching from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each one with a weapon for slaughter in his hand. Among them was a man clothed in linen,^[a] with the necessary paraphernalia for writing in his hand. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

³ The glory of the God of Israel had risen above the cherubim upon which it rested to the threshold of the temple. Then he called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing case at his side, ⁴ and he said to him: “Go throughout the city, throughout Jerusalem, and mark^[b] with a cross the foreheads of all those who grieve and lament over all the abominable practices that run rampant throughout its boundaries.”