1. Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals.
2. And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”
3. But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.
4. So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.
5. Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
6. Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.