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14 I will pluck your wooden images from And their eyelids are lifted up.
your midst; 14 There is a generation whose teeth are
Thus I will destroy your cities. like swords,
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger And whose fangs are like knives,
and fury To devour the poor from off the earth,
On the nations that have not heard.” And the needy from among men.
Psalm 145:1–9 Revelation 10:1–11
A Praise of David. I saw still another mighty angel coming
10 down from heaven, clothed with a cloud.
I will extol You, my God, O King; And a rainbow was on his head, his face was
And I will bless Your name forever
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and ever. like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He
2 Every day I will bless You, had a little book open in his hand. And he set
his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the
And I will praise Your name forever land, and cried with a loud voice, as when a
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and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders
uttered their voices. Now when the seven
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to be praised; thunders uttered their voices, I was about to
And His greatness is unsearchable.
write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying
4 One generation shall praise Your to me, “Seal up the things which the seven
works to another, thunders uttered, and do not write them.”
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
I will meditate on the glorious splendor
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of Your majesty,
And on Your wondrous works.
6 Men shall speak of the might of Your 10:1 another mighty angel. Many commen-
awesome acts, tators understand this to be Jesus Christ. But
And I will declare Your greatness. the Greek word translated “another” means
7 They shall utter the memory of Your one of the same kind, i.e., a created being.This
great goodness, is not one of the 7 angels responsible for
And shall sing of Your righteousness. sounding the trumpets (8:2), but one of the
highest ranking in heaven,filled with splendor,
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The LORD is gracious and full of greatness, and strength (5:2; 8:3; 18:1). rain-
compassion, bow. Perhaps God included this to remind
Slow to anger and great in mercy. John that, even in judgment, He will always
9 The LORD is good to all, remember His Noahic Covenant and protect
And His tender mercies are over all His own. feet like pillars of fire. This angel’s
His works. feet and legs indicate the firm resolve with
which he will execute the Day of the Lord.
Proverbs 30:11–14
11 There is a generation that curses
its father,
5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea
And does not bless its mother.
There is a generation that is pure in its
12 and on the land raised up his hand to heaven
6 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever,
own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness. who created heaven and the things that are in it,
13 There is a generation—oh, how lofty the earth and the things that are in it, and the
are their eyes! sea and the things that are in it, that there should
be delay no longer, but in the days of the sound-
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ing of the seventh angel, when he is about to
sound, the mystery of God would be finished,
as He declared to His servants the prophets.
30:11–14 There is a generation.These proverbs 8 Then the voice which I heard from heaven
condemn various forms of unwise behavior spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the little
and are connected with this common phrase book which is open in the hand of the angel
which points to the fact that certain sins can who stands on the sea and on the earth.”
uniquely permeate a whole society or time 9 So I went to the angel and said to him,
period.
“Give me the little book.”
And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it
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