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* 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 soundedb their own voices. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke,c 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⌋d, 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, thene the mystery of God is completed, as he announced to his own slaves the prophets.”