Ezekiel 9:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ and he said to him: “Go throughout the city, throughout Jerusalem, and mark^[a] with a cross the foreheads of all those who grieve and lament over all the abominable practices that run rampant throughout its boundaries.”

⁵ To the others I heard him say: “Follow him throughout the city and kill, without looking upon them with pity or showing them any mercy. ⁶ Cut down old men, young men and maidens, small children and women, but touch no one who is marked on the forehead with a cross. Begin at my sanctuary.” And so they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.