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| 1Then I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire. | 1Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire. |
| 2He held a small, opened scroll in his hand. Setting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, | 2He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land. |
| 3he shouted in a loud voice as a lion roars. When he shouted, the seven thunders spoke with voices of their own. | 3Then he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices. |
| 4When the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write, but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and don't write it down." | 4When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down." |
| 5Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. | 5Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven |
| 6He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: "There will be no more delay. | 6and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, "There will be no more delay! |
| 7When the time approaches for the seventh angel to blow his trumpet, God's secret plan will be fulfilled, as he had announced to his servants, the prophets." | 7But in the days when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet, the mystery of God is completed, just as he has proclaimed to his servants the prophets." |
| 8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go and take the opened scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." | 8Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again, "Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." |
| 9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll. "Take it and eat it," he told me. "It will turn bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth." | 9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth." |
| 10So I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, it turned bitter in my stomach. | 10So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. |
| 11Then the seven thunders told me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings." | 11Then they told me: "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings." |
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