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Revelation 5:3

1 Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.

2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.

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

5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
KJV
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
WEB
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
ASV
And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.
DARBY
And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.
BLB
And no one in heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the scroll, nor to see it.
ÅB
Og det var ingen i himmelen eller på jorden eller under jorden som kunne åpne boken eller se i den.
OTB
Men ingen i himmelen, på jorden eller under jorden kunne åpne bokrullen eller se i den.
B1930
Og det var ingen i himmelen eller på jorden eller under jorden som kunde åpne boken eller se i den.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Revelation 5:13

    And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

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  • Isaiah 40:13–14

    Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

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  • Romans 11:34

    “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

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  • Isaiah 41:28

    When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

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