Ezekiel 9:5-7

New Catholic Bible

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. ⁶ Cut down old men, young men and maidens, small children and women, but touch no one who is marked on the forehead with a cross. Begin at my sanctuary.” And so they began with the elders who were in front of the temple. ⁷ Then he said to them: “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with the slain.” Then they went forth and killed their way through the city.