⁹ I asked, “What are these, my lord?”

The angel who was talking to me replied, “I will show you what they are.”

¹⁹ So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?”

And he said to me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah,^(A) the Root of David,^(B) has been victorious^(C) so that He may open the scroll and^[a] its seven seals.”

¹³ Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”

¹⁴ I said to him, “Sir,^[a] you know.”

Then he told me: