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[a]And he said to the man dressed in linen: Go within the wheelwork under the cherubim; fill both your hands with burning coals from the place among the cherubim, then scatter them over the city. As I watched, he entered.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:2–13 The burning coals, a sign of the divine presence (cf. 28:14; Ps 18:9), represent the judgment of destruction that God is visiting upon the city; they may also represent the judgment of purification that prepares the land to become the Lord’s sanctuary (cf. Is 6:6–7).

As I looked up, I saw a man[a] dressed in linen with a belt of fine gold around his waist.(A)

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  1. 10:5–6 The heavenly person of the vision is probably the angel Gabriel, as in 9:21. Chrysolite: or topaz, a yellowish precious stone. Cf. the visions in Ez 1 and 8.

One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”

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And I saw that the seven angels who stood before God were given seven trumpets.(A)

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and the seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the temple. They were dressed in clean white linen, with a gold sash around their chests.(A)

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