Discovery BoxEzekiel 9:5 
Context9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 1 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 2 anyone!
Ezekiel 9:10
Context9:10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare 3 them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.” 4
1 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
3 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
4 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.
