Revelation 5:2
Good News Translation
And I saw a mighty angel, who announced in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?"

New Revised Standard Version
and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

Contemporary English Version
I saw a mighty angel ask with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?"

New American Bible
Then I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?

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Psalm 103:20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.

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Revelation 5:5 And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Isaiah 29:11,12 And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed. . . .

Isaiah 41:22,23 Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. . . .

Context
The Scroll with Seven Seals
1And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? 3And no man was able, neither in heaven nor on earth nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look on it.…
Cross References
Revelation 5:1
And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head: and his face, as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.

Revelation 18:21
And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.

Revelation 5:1
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