And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

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.”