1 And I saw another mighty messenger descending from heaven cloaked in a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head and his face like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire,2 and holding in his hand a small book having been opened. And he set his right foot upon the sea, then the left upon the land,3 and he cried out in a great voice just as a lion roars. And when he cried out, the seven thunders uttered their voices.4 And when the seven thunders uttered, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from out of heaven saying "I have sealed the things which the seven thunders have uttered, and you should not write these things!"5 And the messenger, whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth, raised his right hand to heaven6 and swore by He who lives for the eternal ages, 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 there shall no longer be delay,7 but in the days of the sound of the seventh messenger, when he is about to sound the trumpet, then the Mystery of Yahweh is completed as He had announced by His servants the prophets.8 And the voice which I heard from out of heaven speaks with me again and says: "Go take the book which is opened in the hand of the messenger who is standing upon the sea and upon the land!"9 And I went to the messenger, saying to him: "Give to me the small book!" And he says to me: "Take and eat it, and your belly shall be bitter, but in your mouth it shall be sweet as honey."10 And I took the small book from the hand of the messenger and I devoured it, and it was in my mouth as sweet honey, and when I ate it, my belly had become bitter.11 Then they say to me: "It is necessary for you to prophecy again concerning many people and nations and tongues and kings!"