Ezekiel 9:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 9^[a]

Punishment of the Idolaters. ¹ Then he shouted loudly for me to hear: “The scourges of the city are drawing near, each brandishing his weapon of destruction.” ² Thereupon, I saw six men approaching from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each one with a weapon for slaughter in his hand. Among them was a man clothed in linen,^[b] with the necessary paraphernalia for writing in his hand. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

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,