Revelation 5
5
The Lamb Takes the Scroll
1Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.#Is 29:11; Ezk 2:9–10; Dn 12:4 2I also saw a mighty angel#Rv 10:1 proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” 3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it. 4I wept and wept because no one was found worthy to open#5:4 Other mss add and read the scroll or even to look in it. 5Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah,#Gn 49:9 the Root of David,#Is 11:1,10; Rm 15:12; Rv 22:16 has conquered#Jn 16:33 so that he is able to open the scroll and#5:5 Other mss add loose its seven seals.”
6Then I saw one like a slaughtered lamb#Rv 5:12; 13:8 standing in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God#Rv 1:4 sent into all the earth. 7He went and took the scroll out of the right hand of the one seated on the throne.
The Lamb Is Worthy
8When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp#Ps 33:2; 71:22; 150:3; Dn 3:5 and golden bowls#Rv 15:7 filled with incense,#Ps 141:2; Lk 1:10; Rv 8:3–4 which are the prayers of the saints. 9And they sang a new song:#Ps 40:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9; 149:1; Is 42:10; Rv 14:3
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slaughtered,
and you purchased#5:9 Or redeemed people#5:9 Other mss read us
for God by your blood
from every tribe and language
and people and nation.#Ex 19:5; Rv 7:9; 11:9; 14:6
10You made them a kingdom#5:10 Other mss read them kings
and priests to our God,#Ex 19:6; Rv 1:5–6
and they will reign on the earth.
11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and also of the living creatures and of the elders. Their number was countless thousands, plus thousands of thousands.#Dn 7:10; Heb 12:22 12They said with a loud voice,
Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered
to receive power and riches
and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and blessing!
13I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth,#Php 2:10 on the sea, and everything in them say,#Ps 69:34; 96:11; 145:21; Rv 12:12
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be to the one seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
14The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
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Revelation 5
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1I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. 2I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?” 3No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it. 4Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it. 5One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
6I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. 7Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. 8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9They sang a new song, saying,
“You are worthy to take the book
and to open its seals,
for you were killed,
and bought us for God with your blood
out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
10and made us kings and priests to our God;
and we will reign on the earth.”
11I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, 12saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
13I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”#5:13 TR omits “Amen!”
14The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the#5:14 TR adds “twenty-four” elders fell down and worshiped.#5:14 TR adds “the one living forever and ever”
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