⁷ and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven^(A) in blazing fire^(B) with his powerful angels.^{(C) 8} He will punish^(D) those who do not know God^(E) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(F) 9} They will be punished with everlasting destruction^(G) and shut out from the presence of the Lord^(H) and from the glory of his might^{(I) 10} on the day^(J) he comes to be glorified^(K) in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.^(L)

⁷ But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet,^(A) the mystery^(B) of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”^(C)

⁸ Then the voice that I had heard from heaven^(D) spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll^(E) that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

⁹ So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’^[a]”^{(F) 10} I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth,^(G) but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.