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Then the angel took the censer, filled it with burning coals from the altar, and hurled it down to the earth. There were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.(A)

The First Four Trumpets. The seven angels who were holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.(B)

When the first one blew his trumpet, there came hail and fire mixed with blood, which was hurled down to the earth. A third of the land was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all green grass.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 This woe resembles the seventh plague of Egypt (Ex 9:23–24); cf. Jl 3:3.

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar,(A) and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder,(B) rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.(C)

The Trumpets

Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets(D) prepared to sound them.

The first angel(E) sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire(F) mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third(G) of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.(H)

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