¹And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was on his head, and his face was even as the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire: ²And he had a little scroll open in his hand and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the earth, ³And cried with a loud voice, even as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. ⁴And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them. ⁵And the angel whom I saw stand on the sea and on the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, ⁶And swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that are in it, and the earth, and the things that are it, and the sea, and the things which are in it, that time should be no longer: ⁷But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.

⁸And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go and take the little scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth. ⁹And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little scroll. And he said to me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be sweet as honey in your mouth. ¹⁰And I took the little scroll out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. ¹¹And he said to me, You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.