1
Again the great messenger comes forth with the golden trumpet and sounds it over the earth.
2
Its voice is heard from sunrise to sunset and from the south to the north.
3
He sounds it upward toward heaven, and its voice is heard above.
4
Tzefanyah asks why he has not been permitted to see everything.
5
The messenger answers that he lacks authority to show the final things until Yahuah Almighty rises in wrath to destroy the present earth and heavens.
6
All flesh will be disturbed and cry out before the Day of Yahuah.
7
The surviving words ask who can stand before His presence when He rises in wrath.
8
Trees are uprooted, high towers fall, and even the birds of the air fall.
9
The Coptic manuscript breaks off here; the remainder of the ancient work is lost. Provenance note. Akhmimic witness ends in a lacuna. No reconstruction of the missing ending is presented as ancient text.