Ezekiel 9:3-5

New Catholic Bible

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^[a] with a cross the foreheads of all those who grieve and lament over all the abominable practices that run rampant throughout its boundaries.”

⁵ To the others I heard him say: “Follow him throughout the city and kill, without looking upon them with pity or showing them any mercy.