Ezekiel 9:5 As I listened, he said to the others, "Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.

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New International Version
As I listened, he said to the others, "Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.

English Standard Version
And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

New American Standard Bible
But to the others He said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

King James Bible
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He spoke as I listened to the others, "Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!

International Standard Version
As I continued to listen, he also told the others, "Follow him through the city and start killing. Don't spare anyone you see, and don't show pity of any kind.

American Standard Version
And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity.

Darby Bible Translation
And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have pity.

Young's Literal Translation
And to the others he said in mine ears, 'Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;

Cross References

Isaiah 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Ezekiel 9:4
And the LORD 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 for all the abominations that be done in the middle thereof.

Ezekiel 9:6
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man on whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Ezekiel 43:3
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:5-11 The slaughter must begin at the sanctuary, that all may see and know that the Lord hates sin most in those nearest to him. He who was appointed to protect, reported the matter. Christ is faithful to the trust reposed in him. Is he commanded by his Father to secure eternal life to the chosen remnant? He says, Of all that thou hast given me, I have lost none. If others perish, and we are saved, we must ascribe the difference wholly to the mercy of our God, for we too have deserved wrath. Let us still continue to plead in behalf of others. But where the Lord shows no mercy he does no injustice; he only recompenses men's ways.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. the others—the six officers of judgment (Eze 9:2).