1 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and
the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one
saying, �Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after
this.�
2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in
heaven, and one sitting on the throne 3 that looked like a jasper stone
and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look
at. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were
twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on
their heads. 5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders.
There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God. 6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass,
similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were
four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7 The first creature
was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature
had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 The four
living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around
about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, �Holy, holy,
holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy*1 is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who
is to come!�
9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits
on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four
elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives
forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 �Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,*2 to receive the glory, the honor,and the power, for
you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were
created!�
1 TR and NU read �holy� 3 times
instead of 9.
2 TR omits �and
God, the Holy One,�
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