Ezekiel 9:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ Then he said to the men, “·Make the Temple unclean [Defile the temple; ^Critually], and fill the courtyards with ·those who have been killed [the slain]. Go out!” So the men went out and killed the people in the city. ⁸ While they were ·killing the people [striking them down], I was left alone. I bowed facedown on the ground and I cried out, “Oh, Lord God! Will you destroy ·everyone left alive in [the whole remnant of] Israel when you ·turn loose your anger [pour out your wrath] on Jerusalem?”

⁹ Then he said to me, “The sin of the ·people [^Lhouse] of Israel and Judah is very great. The land is filled with people who murder, and the city is full of ·people who are not fair [injustice; corruption]. The people say, ‘The Lord has ·left [abandoned; forsaken] the land, and the Lord does not see.’