Revelation 4

¹ After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven; and the first voice I had heard, sounding like a trumpet and speaking with me, said: “Come up here, and I will show you the things that must happen after these.”

² At once I was in the Spirit. And there was a throne set in heaven, and someone seated on the throne.

³ The one seated there looked like jasper and carnelian; and around the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

⁴ Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, dressed in white robes and wearing golden crowns on their heads.

⁵ From the throne came flashes of lightning, voices, and thunder; and in front of the throne seven burning torches of fire—which are the seven Spirits of God.

⁶ In front of the throne was something like a sea of glass, resembling crystal. In the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living beings, covered with eyes in front and behind.

⁷ The first living being was like a lion; the second, like a calf; the third had a face like a human being; and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

⁸ Each of the four living beings had six wings, and they were covered with eyes all around and inside. Day and night they never rest, saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was, who is, and who is coming.”

⁹ The living beings give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever.

¹⁰ And whenever they do, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne; they worship the one who lives forever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

¹¹ “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, because you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

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