Ezekiel 9:7-9

New English Translation

⁷ He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city. ⁸ While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, “Ah, Sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”

⁹ He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption,^[a] for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’^[b]