The Lamb and the sealed scroll
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📚And I saw in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne✭ a scroll✭ written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals✭. 2 📚And I saw a strong angel✭ proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy✭ to open the scroll, and to break its seals?” 3 📚And no one✭ in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or even to look at it. 4 📚✭And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or even to look at it. 5 📚And one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah✭, the Root of David✭, has prevailed✭ to open the book, and to break its seven seals✭”.6 📚And I looked, and there in the center of the throne✭ and of the four living beings, and in the middle of the elders, stood a Lamb✭ appearing as though it had been slain✭, having seven horns✭ and seven eyes✭, which are the seven Spirits✭ of God sent forth into all the earth. 7 📚✭And he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
All in heaven praise the Lamb
8 📚And when he had taken the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb✭, each of them having a harp✭ and golden bowls full of incense✭, which are the prayers✭ of the saints.
9 📚And they sang a new song✭, saying,
“You are worthy to take the scroll,
and to open its seals, for you were slain✭,
and have redeemed✭ us✭ to God
by your blood out of every tribe,
and language, and people, and nation✭,
10 📚and have made us kings and priests
to our God; and we will reign✭ on the earth✭”.
11 📚And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living beings and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. 12 📚They were saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain✭
to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and honour,
and glory, and praise✭”.
13 📚✭And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and those who are in the sea, and everything that is in them, I heard saying,
“Praise, and honour, and glory,
and power, be to him who sits
on the throne,
and to the Lamb forever and ever”.
14 📚And the four living beings said, “Amen”. And the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves and worshipped him who lives for ever and ever.