¹And I saw another mighty messenger coming down out of the sky, having clothed himself with a cloud, and the rainbow upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire,

²and having in his hand a little scroll opened; and he placed his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land,

³and he cried out in a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their own voice.

⁴And when the seven thunders spoke the voices of themselves, I was about to write; but I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me: Seal what the seven thunders spoke, and not may write them.

⁵And the messenger whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the heaven,

⁶and he swore by the One living forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it and the earth and the things in it and the sea and the things in it, that Delay no longer will there be!

⁷But in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he may soon sound the trumpet, then would be completed the mystery of God, as evangelised to His own slaves the prophets.

⁸And the voice that I heard out of the heaven again was speaking with me and saying: Go, take the little scroll which opened in the hand of the messenger who standing upon the sea and upon the land.

⁹And I went to the messenger, saying to him to give me the little scroll. And he says to me: Take and eat it, and it will make bitter your stomach, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.

¹⁰And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the messenger and I ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

¹¹And they say to me: It is necessary for you again to prophesy concerning peoples and concerning nations and concerning tongues and concerning many kings.