I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

我又举目观看，见有一飞行的书卷。

我又举目观看，看哪，有一飞行的书卷。

我又举目观看，看哪，有一飞行的书卷。

我又举目观看，见有书卷在飞。

我又举目观看，看见有一卷飞行的书卷。

我又舉目觀看，見有一飛行的書卷。

我又舉目觀看，看哪，有一飛行的書卷。

我又舉目觀看，看哪，有一飛行的書卷。

我又舉目觀看，見有書卷在飛。

我又舉目觀看，看見有一卷飛行的書卷。

我又舉目觀看，見有一卷書飛行着。

我又舉目觀看，看哪，有一個飛行的書卷！

我復舉目、見一飛卷、

我復仰觀、見卷軸一舒、有若翻飛、

我復舉目而觀、見有一卷如飛、

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.

Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.

I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

“ What do you see?” the angel asked me.“ A scroll flying in the air,” I replied.“ It’s 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”

The Lord said to me,“ Get a large sheet of paper. Write‘ Maher- Shalal- Hash- Baz’ on it with a pen.”

Then the voice I had heard from heaven spoke to me again. It said,“ The angel is standing on the sea and on the land. Go and take the scroll from him. It is lying open in his hand.”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 become sour in your stomach. But‘ in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’ ”( Ezekiel 3:3)I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. In my mouth it tasted as sweet as honey. But when I had eaten it, it became sour in my stomach.Then I was told,“ You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. The scroll had writing on both sides. It was sealed with seven seals.I saw a mighty angel calling out in a loud voice. He said,“ Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll. No one could even look inside it.I cried and cried. That’s because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.Then one of the elders said to me,“ Do not cry! The Lion of the tribe of Judah has won the battle. He is the Root of David. He is able to break the seven seals and open the scroll.”Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if he had been put to death. He stood at the center of the area around the throne. The Lamb was surrounded by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes. The eyes stand for the seven spirits of God, which are sent out into all the earth.The Lamb went and took the scroll. He took it from the right hand of the one sitting on the throne.Then the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down in front of the Lamb. Each one had a harp. They were holding golden bowls full of incense. They stand for the prayers of God’s people.Here is the new song they sang.“ You are worthy to take the scroll and break open its seals. You are worthy because you were put to death. With your blood you bought people for God. They come from every tribe, people and nation, no matter what language they speak.You have made them members of a royal family. You have made them priests to serve our God. They will rule on the earth.”Then I looked and heard the voice of millions and millions of angels. They surrounded the throne. They surrounded the living creatures and the elders.In a loud voice they were saying,“ The Lamb, who was put to death, is worthy! He is worthy to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength! He is worthy to receive honor and glory and praise!”All creatures in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea were speaking. The whole creation was speaking. I heard all of them say,“ Praise and honor belong to the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb! Glory and power belong to God for ever and ever!”The four living creatures said,“ Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped.

Then I looked up. I saw a hand reach out to me. A scroll was in it.He unrolled it in front of me. Both sides had words written on them. They spoke about sadness, sorrow and trouble.

A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. It came in the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah. He was the son of Josiah. The message said,“ Get a scroll. Write on it all the words I have spoken to you. Write down what I have said about Israel, Judah and all the other nations. Write what I have said to you from the time of King Josiah until now.The people of Judah will hear about all the trouble I plan to bring on them. Maybe then each of them will turn from their evil ways. If they do, I will forgive their sins and the evil things they have done.”So Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah. Jeremiah told him to write down all the words the Lord had spoken to him. And Baruch wrote them on the scroll.Then Jeremiah said to him,“ I’m not allowed to go to the Lord’ s temple.So you go there. Go on a day when the people are fasting. Read to them from the scroll. Read the words of the Lord you wrote down as I gave them to you. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.

The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary. Then they went to the king in the courtyard. They reported everything to him.The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary. Jehudi read it to the king. All the officials were standing beside the king. So they heard it too.It was the ninth month. The king was sitting in his winter apartment. A fire was burning in the fire pot in front of him.Jehudi read three or four sections from the scroll. Then the king cut them off with a secretary’s knife. He threw them into the fire pot. He did that until the entire scroll was burned up in the fire.The king and some of his attendants heard all these words. But they weren’t afraid. They didn’t tear their clothes.

He was holding a little scroll. It was lying open in his hand. The angel put his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. It came after the king burned the scroll. On the scroll were the words Baruch had written down. Jeremiah had told him to write them. The message said,“ Get another scroll. Write on it all the words that were on the first one. King Jehoiakim burned that one up.Also tell King Jehoiakim,‘ The Lord says,“ You burned that scroll. You said to Baruch,‘ Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come? Why did you write that he would destroy this land? And why did you write that he would remove from it people and animals alike?’ ”So now the Lord has something to say about Jehoiakim, the king of Judah. He says,“ No one from Jehoiakim’s family line will sit on David’s throne. Jehoiakim’s body will be thrown out. It will lie outside in the heat by day and in the frost at night.I will punish him and his children and his attendants. I will punish them for their sinful ways. I will bring on them all the trouble I said I would. And I will bring it on the people of Jerusalem and Judah. They have not listened to me.” ’ ”So Jeremiah got another scroll. He gave it to Baruch the secretary. He was the son of Neriah. Jeremiah told Baruch what to write on it. Baruch wrote down all the words that were on the scroll King Jehoiakim had burned up in the fire. And many more words were written on it. They were similar to those that had already been written.