Revelation 10

1I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.Cross-references: Gen 9:11 · Ex 16:10 · Lev 16:2 · Ps 97:2 · Ps 104:3 · Song 5:15 · +19 more

2He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Ps 65:5 · Prov 8:15 · Isa 59:19 · Ezek 2:9 · Matt 28:18 · +7 more

3He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.Cross-references: Prov 19:12 · Isa 5:29 · Isa 31:4 · Isa 42:13 · Jer 25:30 · Joel 3:16 · +7 more

4When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”Cross-references: Deut 29:29 · Isa 8:1 · Isa 8:16 · Isa 29:11 · Dan 8:26 · Dan 12:4 · +5 more

5The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the skyCross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 14:22 · Gen 22:15 · Ex 6:8 · Ex 20:11 · Deut 32:40 · +23 more

6and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,Cross-references: Rev 4:9 · Rev 4:11 · Rev 16:17

7but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the prophets.Cross-references: Amos 3:7 · Luke 24:44 · Acts 3:21 · Rom 11:25 · Rom 16:25 · Eph 3:3 · +1 more

8The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”Cross-references: Isa 30:21 · Rev 10:2 · Rev 10:4

9I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Jer 15:16 · Ezek 2:8 · Ezek 3:1 · Ezek 3:14 · Col 3:6

10I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.Cross-references: Ps 19:10 · Ps 104:34 · Ps 119:103 · Prov 16:24 · Ezek 2:10 · Ezek 3:3 · +1 more

11They told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”Cross-references: Jer 1:9 · Jer 25:15 · Ezek 37:4 · Ezek 37:9 · Rev 11:9 · Rev 14:6 · +1 more