Ezekiel · Bible in Basic English
Ezekiel 9 Bible in Basic English
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1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.
1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”
2 And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.
2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's inkpot at his side,
3 The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.
4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
4 Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:
5 To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
6 Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.
7 He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.
8 Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?
8 While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
9 Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
10 And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
10 As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
11 Then the man clothed in linen, who had the inkpot at his side, came back and said, I have done what you gave me orders to do.
11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 6:8; Ezekiel 43:6–7; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Revelation 1:10–11; Amos 3:7–8
- 2 Leviticus 16:4; Ezekiel 10:2; Ezekiel 10:6–7; 2 Kings 15:35; Revelation 15:6
- 3 Ezekiel 10:4; Ezekiel 11:22–23; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 43:2–4; Ezekiel 8:4
- 4 Revelation 9:4; 2 Corinthians 1:22; Revelation 14:1; Revelation 7:2–3; Revelation 20:4
- 5 Ezekiel 5:11; 1 Samuel 9:15; Ezekiel 24:14; Exodus 32:27; 1 Kings 18:40
- 6 Revelation 9:4; Exodus 12:23; Jeremiah 25:29; 2 Timothy 2:19; Revelation 7:3
- 7 Ezekiel 7:20–22; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Psalm 79:1–3; Lamentations 2:4–7; Luke 13:1
- 8 Ezekiel 11:13; Ezekiel 4:14; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Joshua 7:6; Numbers 14:5
- 9 Ezekiel 8:12; Job 22:13; Ezekiel 7:23; 2 Chronicles 36:14–16; Micah 3:1–3
- 10 Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 11:21; Ezekiel 8:18; Isaiah 65:6; Hosea 9:7
- 11 Zechariah 6:7–8; Revelation 16:17; Revelation 16:2; Zechariah 1:10–11; Psalm 103:20
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Afterwards the Destroyer is sent, and to him it is said, "Go, lay waste, spare neither young nor old, male nor female, but come not near those who have the mark on their forehead." How great security is granted to you, my Brethren, who among this people are sighing, and moaning for the iniquities which are being done in the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)