⁹ After these things I looked, and here was^[a] an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe,^[b] people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.

¹¹ And all the angels stood^[a] there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground^[b] before the throne and worshiped God,

¹² saying,