Khải Huyền 4

The throne in heaven

¹After this I looked, and there in heaven was a door standing open. The voice I had heard at first, the one like a trumpet that spoke with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen.” After this, ²at once I came to be in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. ³The one seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that looked like emerald.^{a 4}Around the throne stood twenty-four other thrones, and on them sat twenty-four elders, dressed in white, with gold crowns on their heads.^{b 5}Lightning flashes out from the throne, with sounds and thunder. Before the throne seven torches of fire are burning, which are the seven spirits of God, ⁶and before it lies what looks like a sea of glass, like crystal.^c

And at the throne’s center and all around it were four living beings, full of eyes front and back. ⁷The first creature looked like a lion; the second looked like an ox; the third had a face like a human face; and the fourth looked like an eagle in flight. ⁸The four living creatures have six wings apiece and are full of eyes around and within. Without rest, day and night, they say: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who was and who is and who is coming.” ⁹Each time the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰the twenty-four elders fall down before him and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They throw down their crowns in front of the throne, saying: ¹¹“Our Lord and God, you are worthy to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, because you created all things: because you willed it, they existed and were created.”