1And I saw another mighty angel coming down out of heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and the rainbow was over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire,
2and holding in his hand a little scroll that had been opened. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left on the land,
3and he cried out with a loud voice, as a lion roars. And when he cried out, the seven thunders spoke their voices.
4And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them.”
5And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven,
6and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more delay,
7but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, then the mystery of God is finished, as he announced the good news to his servants the prophets.
8And the voice that I heard from heaven was speaking with me again and saying, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
9And I went away to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take it and devour it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
10And I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and devoured it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
11And they said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
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