Rev 5:4, 8-9, 14 | ISV | STEP | I began to cry bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.

‏ Revelation of John 5:4

4 I began to cry bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.

8 When the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders bowed down in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of the saints.Ps 141:2; Rev 4:8, 10; 8:3-4; 14:2; 15:2 9 They sang a new song:Ps 40:3; Dan 4:1; 6:25; Acts 20:28; Rom 3:24; 1Cor 6:20; 7:23; Eph 1:7; Col 1:14; Heb 9:12; 1Pet 1:18-19; 2Pet 2:1; 1John 1:7; Rev 4:6, 11; 7:9; 11:9

“You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals,

because you were slaughtered.

With your blood you purchased people ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks people} for God

from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!”, and the elders bowed down and worshiped.Rev 4:9-10; 19:4