1 The Throne in Heaven After these things I looked, and behold, a doorstandingopen in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, likethe soundof a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”
2 Immediately I was 4:2 Or in spirit in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
3 And He who was sittingwaslike a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; andthere wasa 4:3Or halo rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.
4 Around the throneweretwenty-four thrones, and upon those thronesI sawtwenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.
5 And out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. Andthere wereseven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the thronethere was somethinglike a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the 4:6 Lit middle of the throne and around center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.
7 And the first creaturewaslike a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creaturewaslike a flying eagle.
8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within, and day and night 4:8Lit they have no rest, saying, they do not cease to say,“Holy,holy,holyisthe 4:8In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 6:3 LordGod,theAlmighty,who was and who is and who 4:8Or is coming is to come.”
9 And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and because of Your will they 4:11Lit were existed, and were created.”