Bilingual reading

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.

Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”

I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”

The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.

ورَأَيتُ بِيَمينِ الجالِسِ على العَرشِ كِتابًا مَخْطوطًا مِنَ الدَّاخِلِ والخارِج، مَخْتومًا بِسَبعَةِ أَخْتام

ورَأَيتُ مَلاكًا قَوِيًّا يُنادي بِأَعلى صَوتِه: «مَن هو أَهلٌ لِفَتحِ الكِتابِ وفَضِّ أَخْتامِه؟»

فما ٱستَطاعَ أَحَدٌ في السَّماءِ ولا في الأَرضِ ولا تَحتَ الأَرضِ أَن يَفتَحَ الكِتابَ ولا أَن يَنظُرَ ما فيه

فجَعَلتُ أَبكي بُكاءً شَديدًا، لِأَنَّه لم يوجَدْ أَحَدٌ أَهلًا لِأَن يَفتَحَ الكِتابَ ويَنظُرَ ما فيه

فقالَ لي واحِدٌ مِنَ الشُّيوخ: «لا تَبكِ. ها قد غَلَبَ الأَسَدُ مِن سِبطِ يَهوذا، ذُرِّيَّةُ داوُد: فسيَفتَحُ الكِتابَ ويَفُضُّ أَخْتامَه السَّبعَة»

ورَأَيتُ بَينَ العَرشِ والأَحْياءِ الأَربَعَةِ وبَينَ الشُّيوخِ حَمَلًا قائِمًا كأَنَّه ذَبيح، لَه سَبعَةُ قُرونٍ وسَبْعُ أَعيُن هي أَرْواحُ اللهِ السَّبعَةُ الَّتي أُرسِلَت إِلى الأَرضِ كُلِّها

فأَتى وأَخَذَ الكِتابَ مِن يَمينِ الجالِسِ على العَرْش

ولَمَّا أَخَذَ الكِتاب، جَثا الأَحْياءُ الأَربَعَةُ والشُّيوخُ الأَربَعَةُ والعِشْرونَ أَمامَ الحَمَل، وكانَ مع كُلِّ واحِدٍ مِنهم كِنَّارَةٌ وأَكْوابٌ مِن ذَهَبٍ مُلِئَت عُطورًا هي صَلَواتُ القِدِّيسين

وكانوا يُرَتِّلونَ نَشيدًا جديدًا فيَقولون: «أَنتَ أَهلٌ لِأَن تَأخُذَ الكِتابَ وتَفُضَّ أَخْتامَه، لِأَنَّكَ ذُبِحتَ وٱفتَدَيتَ للهِ بِدَمِكَ أُناسًا مِن كُلِّ قَبيلَةٍ ولِسانٍ وشَعبٍ وأُمَّة

وجَعَلتَ مِنهم لإِلٰهِنا مَملَكَةً وكَهَنَةً سيَملِكونَ على الأَرْض»

وتَوالَت رُؤيايَ فسَمِعتُ صَوتَ كَثيرٍ مِنَ المَلائِكَةِ حَولَ العَرشِ والأَحْياءِ والشُّيوخ، وكانَ عَدَدُهم رِبْواتِ رِبْوات وأُلوفَ أُلوف

وهم يَصيحون بِأَعْلى أَصْواتِهم: «الحَمَلُ الذَّبيحُ أَهلٌ لأَن يَنالَ القُدرَةَ والغِنى والحِكمَةَ والقُوَّةَ والإِكْرامَ والمَجْدَ والتَّسْبيح»

وكُلُّ خَلِيقَةٍ في السَّماءِ وعلى الأَرضِ وتَحتَ الأَرضِ وفي البَحرِ، وكُلُّ ما فيها، سَمِعتُه يَقول: «لِلجالِسِ على العَرشِ ولِلحَمَلِ التَّسْبيحُ والإِكْرامُ والمَجدُ والعِزَّةُ أَبَدَ الدُّهور»

وكانَتِ الأَحْياءُ الأَربَعَةُ تَقول: «آمين». وجَثا الشُّيوخُ ساجِدين