The bookie opened,
hyacinth, and brunstane; and the heids o’ the horses as heids o’ lions; and oot 0’ their mou’ gangs 1Iowa, and reek, and brunstane.
18. By thir thrie plagues war slain the third-pairt 0’ men; by the lowe, and the reek, and the brun- stane that cam oot 0’ their mou’.
19. For the pooer o’ the horses is i’ their mou’ and i’ their tail; for their tails are like serpents, wi’ heids; and wi’ them they do skaith.
20. And the lave 0’ men, who. warna slain by thir plagues, repentit- na 0’ the warks 0’ their hauns, that they soudna ser’ demons, and eidols o’ gowd, and siller, and o’ brass, and o’ stane, and o’ wud; whilk can neither see, nor hear, nor gang :
21. And they repentit-na 0’ their blude-sheddin, nor 0’ their incanta- tions, nor 0’ their uncleanness, nor of their plunderins.
CHAPTIR TEN. The wee bookie open ; sweet to the taste, but ill to diageist.
AND I saw anither, a michty Angel,
comin doon oot 0’ Heaven, c ad wi’ a clud ; anda rainbow on his heid ; and his face as the sun, and his feet as lowin illars.
2. An he had in his haun a wee 9 bookie open ; and he set his richt fit pn the sea, and his left fit on the an’;
3. And cry’t oot wi’ a soondin voice, as a lion wad roar. And when he cry’t oot, seeven thunners spak wi' their voices.
4. And when the seeven thunners spak, I was gaun to write; and I heard a voice act 0’ Heaven, sayin,
‘V. 17. Gin this chaptir airts to the Mahommedan pooer, as maist think, than this micht be a glint 0’ the new way 0' making war wi’ poother and ordnance : as amang the Turks.
'V. 2. Wasns this the Scripture. or at least the New Testament? nevir weel- open't and understude till the days 0’ prentin and the Reformation.
REVELATION, XI.
and hoe it tasted.
“ Bind ye up the things the seeven thunners spak, and write-them-na l ”
5. And the Angel I saw staunin on the sea and on the lan’, liftit his richt haun toward heeven,
6. And swnre by him wha leeves for evir-and-evir, wha creatit the heeven and a' thar-in, and the yirth and a’ thar-in. and the sea and a’ thar-in, that “ The delay was audit 1 "
7. But i’ the days 0' the seeventh Angel, whane'er he soud begin to soond, soud be perfetit the secret 0’ God ; conform to the Gude-tidins he has declar’t to his ain servants the prophets.
8. And the voice I heard oot o’ heeven heard I again talkin wi’ me, and saying, “Awe! tak the wee bookie, the open ane, i’ the bean o’ the Angel that stauns on the sea and on the lan’.”
9. And I gaed awa to the Angel, and says to him, “Gie the wee bookie to me!” And he says to me. “Tak it, and eat it up; and it eal be bitter within ye, but i’ yere mon' it sal be sweet as hinny !”
10. And I took the wee bookie oot o’ the Angel’s haun, and ate it up; and it wasi’ my mou’ as hinny sweet; and when I had eaten it, it was bitter within me.
11. And quo’ they to me, “Ye maun prophesie yet again to many folk, and nations, and tongues, and kings ! ”
CHAPTIR ELEEVEN. The measurin-wand ; the Two. Witnesses.
AND thar was gien me a reed like
to a wand; and it was said,
“ Rise ye, and 3measur the temple 0’
God, and the altar, and a' that wor- ship thar !
2. “ And the coort that is ootside
the Temple lea’ ye ootside, and
’V. 1. Frae this oot, the bnik seems to tak u the spiritual history 0’ the warld; thus ar haein been wi’ the ootward and national. We ang back as it war non, and look at Christ’s Kirk.
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