Apocalypse 10
La Bible du Semeur
Le petit livre
10 Ensuite je vis un autre ange puissant descendre du ciel, enveloppé d’une nuée. Un arc-en-ciel auréolait sa tête. Son visage rayonnait comme le soleil, et ses jambes ressemblaient à des colonnes de feu. 2 Dans sa main, il tenait un petit livre ouvert. Il posa son pied droit sur la mer et le gauche sur la terre. 3 Il se mit à crier d’une voix forte comme rugit un lion. Quand il eut crié, les sept tonnerres firent retentir leur voix.
4 Quand ils eurent fini de parler, je me disposais à transcrire leur message, lorsqu’une voix venant du ciel me dit : Garde sous le sceau du secret les déclarations des sept tonnerres, ne les note pas.
5 Alors, l’ange que j’avais vu debout sur la mer et sur la terre leva la main droite vers le ciel 6 et jura solennellement[a] par celui qui vit éternellement, qui a créé le ciel et tout ce qui s’y trouve, la terre et tout ce qui s’y trouve, la mer et tout ce qui s’y trouve : Désormais, il n’y aura plus de délai ! 7 Au jour où retentira la trompette du septième ange, tout le plan secret de Dieu s’accomplira, comme il l’a annoncé à ses serviteurs, ses prophètes.
8 De nouveau, la voix que j’avais entendue venant du ciel m’adressa la parole : Va, me dit-elle, prends le livre ouvert dans la main de l’ange qui se tient debout sur la mer et sur la terre.
9 Je m’approchai donc de l’ange, en le priant de me remettre le petit livre.
– Tiens, me dit-il, mange-le. Il te remplira l’estomac d’amertume, mais dans ta bouche, il sera doux comme du miel[b]! 10 Je pris donc le petit livre de la main de l’ange et je le mangeai. Dans ma bouche, il fut doux comme du miel, mais, après l’avoir mangé, mon estomac fut rempli d’amertume. 11 Alors on me dit : Tu dois encore prophétiser concernant beaucoup de peuples, de nations, de langues et de rois.
Revelation 10
Lexham English Bible
The Angel and the Little Scroll
10 And I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire,[a] 2 and holding in his hand a little scroll that was opened. And he put his right foot on the sea and his[b] left on the land. 3 And he cried out with a loud voice like a lion roars, and when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded[c] their own voices. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke,[d] I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them!”
5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven 6 and swore by the one who lives forever and ever[e], who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, whenever he is about to blow the trumpet, then[f] the mystery of God is completed, as he announced to his own slaves the prophets.”
8 And the voice that I had heard from heaven was speaking with me again and saying, “Go, take the opened scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” 9 And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll, and he said to me, “Take and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” 10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it up, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. 11 And they said to me, “It is necessary for you to prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”
Footnotes
- Revelation 10:1 Or “like fiery pillars”
- Revelation 10:2 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- Revelation 10:3 Or “spoke”
- Revelation 10:4 Or “sounded”
- Revelation 10:6 Literally “for the ages of the ages”
- Revelation 10:7 Literally “and”
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