Revelation 5:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ But there was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth who was able to open the scroll and examine it.

⁴ I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and examine it. ⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed, and thus has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals.”