[1] Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a
cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his
legs like pillars of fire. [2] He had a little scroll open in his hand. And
he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, [3] and
called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring; when he called out, the
seven thunders sounded. [4] And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was
about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the
seven thunders have said, and do not write it down." [5] And the angel whom
I saw standing on sea and land lifted up his right hand to heaven [6] and
swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and what is in
it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there
should be no more delay, [7] but that in the days of the trumpet call to be
sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God, as he announced to his
servants the prophets, should be fulfilled. [8] Then the voice which I had
heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll which is
open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
[9] So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll; and
he said to me, "Take it and eat; it will be bitter to your stomach, but
sweet as honey in your mouth." [10] And I took the little scroll from the
hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I
had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. [11] And I was told, "You must
again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings."
