² And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his ^[a]battle-ax in his hand. ^(A)One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn ^[b]at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

^2 (A)Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, “Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, fill your hands with ^(B)coals of fire from among the cherubim, and ^(C)scatter them over the city.” And he went in as I watched.

⁴ He shall put the ^(A)holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore ^(B)he shall wash his body in water, and put them on.

⁶ And out of the ^[a]temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, ^(A)clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.

⁶ Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheels. ⁷ And the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out.

^35 (A)However the ^[a]high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ^(B)He built the Upper Gate of the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.