Revelation 4

¹After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.

²At once I was 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 a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

⁴Surrounding the throne [were] twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, [with] golden crowns on their heads.

⁵From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven spirits of God.

⁶And before the throne [was something] like a sea of glass, [as clear as] crystal. In [the] center, around the throne, [were] four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

⁷The first living creature [was] like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth [was] like an eagle in flight.

⁸And each [of] the four living creatures had six wings [and was] covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, [is the] Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

⁹And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the [One] seated on the throne, who lives forever [and] ever,

¹⁰the twenty-four elders fall down before the [One] seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever [and] ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

¹¹“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”