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天使与小书卷

10 我又看见一位大力的天使从天上降下来,身披云彩,头上有彩虹,脸像太阳,两脚像火柱一样, 手里拿着展开的小书卷。他的右脚踏在海上,左脚踏在地上, 大声呼喊,好象狮子吼叫。他呼喊的时候,就有七雷发声说话。 七雷说话的时候,我正要写下来,就听见有声音从天上出来,说:“七雷所说的你要封住,不可写出来!” 我看见那站在海上和地上的天使,向天举起右手来, 指着那活到永永远远,创造天和天上之物、地和地上之物、海和海中之物的 神起誓,说:“必不再延迟了! 到第七位天使吹号的时候, 神向他的仆人众先知所宣告的奥秘,就要实现了。”

我先前听见那从天上来的声音又对我说:“你去,把那站在海上和地上的天使手中展开的书卷拿过来。” 我就走到天使那里,请他把小书卷给我。他对我说:“你拿着,吃下去。它必使你肚子苦涩,但是口里却好象蜜一样甘甜。” 10 我把小书卷从天使手中拿过来,吃了,在口里果然甘甜如蜜;但是吃完之后,我肚子就觉得苦涩。 11 他们又对我说:“论到许多民族、邦国、方言和君王,你必须再说预言。”

The Mighty Angel and the Small Scroll

10 Then I saw another mighty angel(A) coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow(B) over his head.[a] His face was like the sun, his legs[b] were like pillars of fire,(C) and he held a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land, and he called out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders raised their voices. And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said,(D) and do not write it down!”

Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. He swore by the one who lives forever and ever,(E) who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay, but in the days when the seventh angel(F) will blow his trumpet, then the mystery of God(G) will be completed, as he announced to his servants the prophets.”(H)

Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”(I)

10 Then I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter.(J) 11 And they said to me, “You must prophesy again about[c] many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”(K)

Footnotes

  1. 10:1 Or a halo on his head
  2. 10:1 Or feet
  3. 10:11 Or prophesy again against