Revelation 5:1–10

THE LAMB TAKES THE SCROLL

5Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.^{l 2}I also saw a mighty angel^m 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^D 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,ⁿ the Root of David,^o has conquered^p so that he is able to open the scroll and^E its seven seals.”

⁶Then I saw one like a slaughtered lamb^q 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^r 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^s and golden bowls^t filled with incense,^u which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹And they sang a new song:^v

You are worthy to take the scroll

and to open its seals,

because you were slaughtered,

and you purchased^A people^B

for God by your blood

from every tribe and language

and people and nation.^w

¹⁰You made them a kingdom^C

and priests to our God,^x

and they will reign on the earth.