The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Revelation 05
1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat
on the throne, a book written inside and
outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with
a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the
book, and to break its seals?”
3 No one in heaven above, or on the
earth, or under the earth, was able to open
the book or to look in it.
4 Then I wept much, because no one was
found worthy to open the book or to look
in it.
5 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 sevenseals.”
6 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.
7 Then he came, and he took it out of the
right hand of him who sat on the throne.
8 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.
9 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,
10 and made us kings and priests to our
God; and we will reign on the earth.”
11 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,
12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy
is the Lamb who has been killed to receive
the power, wealth, wisdom, strength,
honor, glory, and blessing!”
13 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!Ӡ
14 The four living creatures said,
“Amen!” Then the‡ elders fell down and
worshiped.§