Book of Revelation 5
The book and the Lamb
1 Then I saw a book. God, who was sitting on the *throne, was holding the book. He was holding it in his right hand. He had written inside the book and on the back of it. And he had locked the book with 7 *locks.
2 And I saw a strong *angel who spoke with a loud voice. ‘Who is so good that they can break the *locks?’ he said. ‘Who can open the book?’
3 But nobody in *heaven could open the book. Neither could anyone on the earth nor anyone under the earth open it. note
4 I wept much because there was nobody. Nobody was so good that they could open the book. So nobody could look inside it.
5 Then one of the leaders spoke to me. ‘Do not weep’, he said. ‘Look! The one who is stronger than everyone else has won the fight. His name is the *Lion from Judah’s family group. His name is also the Root of David. He belongs to David’s family, but he is greater than David. He can break the 7 *locks on the book so that he can open it.’ note
6 Then I saw a *Lamb. He was standing in the middle of the *throne. The 4 *beings that were alive, and the leaders, were round him. He appeared to be the *Lamb that someone had killed. This *Lamb had 7 *horns and 7 eyes. His eyes are the 7 *spirits of God, that God has sent into all parts of the world.
7 The *Lamb came and took the book. He took it from the right hand of God, who was sitting on the *throne.
8 And when he had taken the book, the 4 *beings and the 24 leaders *worshipped him. They bent down to the ground in front of the *Lamb. Each leader had a *harp to make music. And they were holding gold cups which were full of *incense. This *incense makes a nice smell when it burns. These cups of *incense are like a picture of everything that God’s people pray to him.
9 The *beings and the leaders sang a new song. This is their song: ‘You are so good! You can take the book and break its *locks. You can do this because they killed you. That is how you bought people for God with your blood. You bought them from every family group, from every language and every country.
10 You have caused them to belong to your family, the family that rules over everything. You have made them *priests, *priests who are servants of our God. And they will rule on the earth.’
11 Then I looked again, and I heard the sound of many *angels. There were thousands and millions of them, and they were standing round the *throne. They stood round the *beings that were alive and round the leaders.
12 They sang like this with loud voices: ‘The *Lamb that they killed is very good! He is so good that he must receive all authority. He is rich and strong and he always knows everything. Everyone must say how great and important he is. Everyone must thank him!’
13 Then I heard everyone singing. Everything that God has made alive was singing. That included everything in God’s home and everything on the earth. It also included everything under the earth and on the sea. They were singing: ‘We thank you, who sit on the *throne. And we thank the *Lamb. You must have authority always! Everyone must always recognise how great you are! They must recognise how powerful you are!’
14 The 4 *beings that were alive spoke then. ‘Yes, this is true’, they said. And the leaders bent down and they *worshipped God and the *Lamb. note
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