1 En ek het 'n ander sterk engel uit die hemel sien neerdaal, bekleed met 'n wolk, en 'n reënboog was oor sy hoof, en sy aangesig was soos die son, en sy voete soos pilare van vuur;

2 en in sy hand het hy 'n geopende boekie gehad, en hy het sy regtervoet op die see gesit en sy linkervoet op die land;

3 en hy het met 'n groot stem uitgeroep soos 'n leeu wat brul, en toe hy uitgeroep het, het die sewe donderslae hulle stemme laat hoor.

4 En toe die sewe donderslae hulle stemme laat hoor het, wou ek skrywe; maar ek het 'n stem uit die hemel vir my hoor sê: Verseël wat die sewe donderslae gespreek het, en skryf dit nie op nie.

5 En die engel wat ek op die see en op die land sien staan het, het sy hand na die hemel opgehef,

6 en hy het gesweer by Hom wat tot in alle ewigheid lewe, wat die hemel geskape het en wat daarin is, en die aarde en wat daarin is, en die see en wat daarin is, dat daar geen tyd meer sal wees nie;

7 maar in die dae van die stem van die sewende engel, wanneer hy met die basuin sal blaas, dan is die verborgenheid van God volbring, soos Hy die blye tyding verkondig het aan sy diensknegte, die profete.

8 En die stem wat ek uit die hemel gehoor het, het weer tot my gespreek en gesê: Gaan, neem die geopende boekie in die hand van die engel wat op die see en op die land staan.

9 En ek het na die engel gegaan en aan hom gesê: Gee my die boekie. Toe sê hy vir my: Neem en eet dit op, en dit sal jou maag bitter maak, maar in jou mond sal dit soet wees soos heuning.

10 Toe neem ek die boekie uit die hand van die engel en eet dit op, en in my mond was dit soet soos heuning; maar toe ek dit geëet het, het my maag bitter geword.

11 En hy het vir my gesê: Jy moet weer profeteer oor baie volke en nasies en tale en konings.

1 And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and an arch of coloured light was round his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

2 And he had in his hand a little open book: and he put his right foot on the sea, and his left on the earth;

3 And he gave a loud cry, like the angry voice of a lion: and at his cry the voices of the seven thunders were sounding.

4 And when the seven thunders had given out their voices, I was about to put their words down: and a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Keep secret the things which the seven thunders said, and do not put them in writing.

5 And the angel which I saw taking his position on the sea and on the earth, put up his right hand to heaven,

6 And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made 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 would be no more waiting:

7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the sound of his horn is about to come, then will the secret of God be complete, of which he gave the good news to his servants the prophets.

8 And the voice came to me again from heaven, saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who has his place on the sea and on the earth.

9 And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.

10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.

11 And they said to me, You are to give word again of what is coming in the future to the peoples and nations and languages and kings.