The Revelation of St. John the Divine

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- Chapter 5 -

I saw that there was a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. The scroll was written on its outside as well as on its inside, and it was sealed with seven seals.

I saw a strong angel who was announcing in a loud voice, “The person who is worthy to break the seals of the scroll and then to open it should come and do it!”

But no created being in heaven, on the earth, or under it was able to open the scroll and see what was written on it.

I wept loudly because there was no one worthy to do that.

But one of the elders said to me, “Do not cry any longer! Look, the one who is called the Lion from the tribe of Judah, who is the descendant and heir of King David, has overcome Satan! As a result, he is worthy to break the seven seals on the scroll and to open it!”

Then I saw a Lamb standing there in the midst of the four living creatures and the elders around the throne. Although he was alive, he had marks that showed that someone had killed him. He had seven horns, and he had seven eyes that are the seven spirits of God that God sends out over all the earth.

The Lamb came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one sitting on the throne.

When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves before him. They each had a harp, and they had golden bowls full of incense that represents the prayers of God’s people.

The living creatures and the elders sang a new song. They sang: “You are worthy to receive the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and because you redeemed people for God from every tribe, language, people, and people group with your blood when you died.

You have caused them to become a people over whom God rules and to become priests who serve him; they will rule on the earth.”

The Lamb Exalted

As I continued to look, I heard the voices of many angels around the throne and around the living creatures and the elders. There were millions of them, a crowd so large that no one could count them.

They were singing in a loud voice: “The Lamb whom they killed, it is right that we should praise his power, wealth, wisdom, and strength. It is right that all created things should honor him and praise him!”

And I heard every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea say, “We must forever praise, honor, and glorify the one who sits on the throne and the lamb. May they reign with complete power forever!”

The four living creatures said, “May it be so!” Then the elders prostrated themselves on the ground and worshiped God and the lamb.

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.

Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.

One 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.”

I 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.

Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

Now 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.

They 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,

and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”

The Lamb Exalted

I 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,

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

I 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!”(a)

The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the

(b)

elders fell down and worshiped.(c)

Footnotes

(a)5:13 TR omits “Amen!”

(b)5:14 TR adds “twenty-four”