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 the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. # Is 29:11; Ezk 2:9-10; Dn 12:4 2I also saw a mighty angel # Rv 10:1 proclaiming in 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. 4And I cried and cried because no one was found worthy to open # Other mss add and read the scroll or even to look in it.
5Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. 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 been victorious # Jn 16:33 so that He may open the scroll and # Other mss add loose its seven seals.” 6Then I saw One like a slaughtered lamb # Rv 5:12; 13:8 standing between # Or standing in the middle 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 came and took the scroll # Other mss include 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 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp # Ps 33:2; 71:22; 150:3; Dn 3:5 and gold bowls # Rv 15:17 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 redeemed # Or purchased people # 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 # 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:
The Lamb who was slaughtered is worthy
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 dominion
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
5
The Lamb Takes the Scroll
1And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne #Ezek. 2:9, 10a scroll written inside and on the back, #Is. 29:11; Dan. 12:4sealed with seven seals. 2Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, #Rev. 4:11; 5:9“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” 3And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.
4So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. 5But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, #Gen. 49:9the Lion of the tribe of #Heb. 7:14Judah, #Is. 11:1, 10; Rom. 15:12; Rev. 22:16the Root of David, has #Rev. 3:21prevailed to open the scroll #Rev. 6:1and to loose its seven seals.”
6And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood #Is. 53:7; (John 1:29; 1 Pet. 1:19)a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and #Zech. 3:9; 4:10seven eyes, which are #Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand #Rev. 4:2of Him who sat on the throne.
Worthy Is the Lamb
8Now when He had taken the scroll, #Rev. 4:8–10; 19:4the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the #Ps. 141:2; Rev. 8:3prayers of the saints. 9And #Rev. 14:3they sang a new song, saying:
#Rev. 4:11“You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals;
For You were slain,
And #John 1:29have redeemed us to God #(Heb. 9:12; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19)by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10And have made us #Ex. 19:6kings and #Is. 61:6priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth.”
11Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, 12saying with a loud voice:
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
13And #Phil. 2:10; Rev. 5:3every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:
#1 Chr. 29:11; Rom. 9:5; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Pet. 4:11“Blessing and honor and glory and power
Be to Him #Rev. 4:2, 3; 6:16; 20:11who sits on the throne,
And to the Lamb, forever and ever!”
14Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.
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