They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. 009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone 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. 009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. 009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity; 009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house. 009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city. 009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that 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? 009:009 Then said he 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. 009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head. 009:011 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. 010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. 010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory. 010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between