^{3 Ref} and he cried with a great voice, as a lion doth roar, and when he cried, speak out did the seven thunders their voices;

^{4 Ref} and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou mayest not write these things.'

^{5 Ref} And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,

^{6 Ref} and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it -- that time shall not be yet,

^{7 Ref} but in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he may be about to sound, and the secret of God may be finished, as He did declare to His own servants, to the prophets.

^{8 Ref} And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'