Ezekiel 9 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Et clamavit in auribus meis voce magna, dicens: Appropinquaverunt visitationes urbis, et unusquisque vas interfectionis habet in manu sua.
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 Et ecce sex viri veniebant de via portæ superioris, quæ respicit ad aquilonem, et uniuscujusque vas interitus in manu ejus: vir quoque unus in medio eorum vestitus erat lineis, et atramentarium scriptoris ad renes ejus: et ingressi sunt, et steterunt juxta altare æreum.
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 Et gloria Domini Israël assumpta est de cherub, quæ erat super eum ad limen domus: et vocavit virum qui indutus erat lineis, et atramentarium scriptoris habebat in lumbis suis:
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 et dixit Dominus ad eum: Transi per mediam civitatem, in medio Jerusalem, et signa thau super frontes virorum gementium et dolentium super cunctis abominationibus quæ fiunt in medio ejus.
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 Et illis dixit, audiente me: Transite per civitatem sequentes eum, et percutite: non parcat oculus vester, neque misereamini:
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 senem, adolescentulum et virginem, parvulum et mulieres interficite usque ad internecionem: omnem autem super quem videritis thau, ne occidatis: et a sanctuario meo incipite. Cœperunt ergo a viris senioribus, qui erant ante faciem domus.
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 Et dixit ad eos: Contaminate domum, et implete atria interfectis; egredimini. Et egressi sunt, et percutiebant eos qui erant in civitate.
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 Et cæde completa, remansi ego, ruique super faciem meam, et clamans aio: Heu ! heu ! heu ! Domine Deus: ergone disperdes omnes reliquias Israël, effundens furorem tuum super 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 Et dixit ad me: Iniquitas domus Israël et Juda magna est nimis valde, et repleta est terra sanguinibus, et civitas repleta est aversione: dixerunt enim: Dereliquit Dominus terram, et Dominus non videt.
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 Igitur et meus non parcet oculus, neque miserebor: viam eorum super caput eorum reddam.
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 Et ecce vir qui erat indutus lineis, qui habebat atramentarium in dorso suo, respondit verbum, dicens: Feci sicut præcepisti mihi.
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.”
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- 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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… to destroy the ungodly people, He first sent one to mark them, and said to him, "Go and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and moan for the sins of my people that are done in the midst of them." He did not say, "which are done without them;" but "in the midst of them." …
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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)