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Ezekiel lies face-down before the radiant threshold as the recorder returns with his completed report.
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Ezekiel 9:8-11

Ezekiel intercedes and the recorder reports

The Mark and the Six Agents · Ezekiel 9

Story guide: The scene centers Ezekiel’s appeal and the recorder’s obedience; the judgment response is carried by Scripture, not graphic art.

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8And it happened, while they were striking them down, and I alone was left, that I fell on my face and cried out, and I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, will you destroy all the remnant of Israel as you pour out your wrath on Jerusalem?”

9Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is full of perversion. For they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see.’”

10And as for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I show pity; I have brought their way upon their heads.

11And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”

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