Revelation 5

¹ I saw that in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne there was a scrol that was written on backand front and was sealed with seven seals.

² Then I saw a powerful angel who cal ed with a loud voice, 'Who is worthy to open the scroll and breakits seals?'

³ But there was no one, in heaven or on the earth or under the earth, who was able to open the scrol andread it.

⁴ I wept bitterly because nobody could be found to open the scrol and read it,

⁵ but one of the elders said to me, 'Do not weep. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,has triumphed, and so he wil open the scroll and its seven seals.'

⁶ Then I saw, in the middle of the throne with its four living creatures and the circle of the elders, a Lambstanding that seemed to have been sacrificed; it had seven horns, and it had seven eyes, which are the sevenSpirits that God has sent out over the whole world.

⁷ The Lamb came forward to take the scrol from the right hand of the One sitting on the throne,

⁸ and when he took it, the four living creatures prostrated themselves before him and with them thetwenty-four elders; each one of them was holding a harp and had a golden bowl full of incense which are theprayers of the saints.

⁹ They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scrol and to break its seals, because you weresacrificed, and with your blood you bought people for God of every race, language, people and nation

¹⁰ and made them a line of kings and priests for God, to rule the world.

¹¹ In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and theliving creatures and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands uponthousands,

¹² loudly chanting: Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength,honour, glory and blessing.

¹³ Then I heard al the living things in creation -- everything that lives in heaven, and on earth, and underthe earth, and in the sea, crying: To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, be al praise, honour, gloryand power, for ever and ever.

¹⁴ And the four living creatures said, 'Amen'; and the elders prostrated themselves to worship.