And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed in a cloud and a rainbow on the head, and his face like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire. And he had in his hand a little scroll open, and he placed his right foot on the sea, and the left on the earth, and he cried out in a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he cried out the seven thunders spoke with their own voices. And when the seven thunders spoke with their own voices I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of heaven saying to me,
“Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and don’t write them!”
And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and swore by the one living for ever 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 will be no further delay, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he trumpets out, the mystery of God should also be completed, as he has announced the joyful news to his servants the prophets.
And the voice, which I had heard out of heaven, spoke again with me and said,
“Go, take the little scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the earth.”
And I went up to the angel, saying to him,
“Give me the little scroll!”
And he says to me,
“Take and eat it up, and it will make your insides bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet, like honey.”
And I took the little scroll out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up and it was in my mouth sweet, like honey, and when I had eaten it, my insides were made bitter.
And he says to me,
“You must prophesy again to peoples and nations and tongues and many kings.”
