1Ensuite 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.2Dans sa main, il tenait un petit livre ouvert. Il posa son pied droit sur la mer et le gauche sur la terre.3Il se mit à crier d’une voix forte comme rugit un lion. Quand il eut crié, les sept tonnerres firent retentir leur voix.4Quand 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.5Alors, l’ange que j’avais vu debout sur la mer et sur la terre leva la main droite vers le ciel6et jura solennellement[1] 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! (Da 12:7)7Au 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.8De 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.9Je 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[2]! (Ez 3:3)10Je 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.11Alors on me dit: Tu dois encore prophétiser concernant beaucoup de peuples, de nations, de langues et de rois.
Apocalypse 10
English Standard Version
The Angel and the Little Scroll
1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. (Ez 1:28; Mt 17:2; Ap 1:15; Ap 1:16)2He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, (Ap 10:8)3and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. (Jl 3:16; Am 1:2)4And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” (Da 8:26; Da 12:4; Da 12:9; Ap 22:10)5And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven (Gn 14:22)6and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, (Ap 4:9; Ap 4:11)7but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. (Am 3:7; Ap 11:15)8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”9So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” (Jr 15:16; Ez 2:8; Ez 3:1)10And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.11And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.” (Ez 37:4)