Chapter 10

And I saw another angel, a strong one, coming down from heaven, clothed in a cloud, and the rainbow was over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

And he had in his hand a little open scroll; and he set his right foot upon the sea but his left foot upon the earth.

And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion roars. And when he had cried, the seven thunders spoke out their voices.

And when the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up the things that the seven thunders spoke, and do not 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 him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, and that there shall be delay no longer;

but that in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, as he declared by his servants the prophets.

And the voice that I heard from heaven was speaking with me again, and saying, "Go, take the open scroll from the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea and upon the earth."

And I went away to the angel, telling him to give me the scroll. And he said to me, "Take the scroll and eat it up, and it will make thy stomach bitter, but in thy mouth it will be sweet as honey."

And I took the scroll from the angel's hand, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, and when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.

And they said to me, "Thou must prophesy again to many nations and peoples and tongues and kings."