^{5 Ref} 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:

^{6 Ref} 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.

^{7 Ref} And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

^{8 Ref} 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?