1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven, and the first voice that I heard as a trumpet is speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what is necessary to take place after these things.” VP
2 Immediately I was in [the] Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [One] sitting upon the throne, VP
3 and the [One] sitting, in appearance [was] like jasper and carnelian stone. And a rainbow [was] around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. VP
4 And around the throne [were] twenty-four thrones, and sitting on the thrones twenty-four elders having been clothed in white garments, and on their heads golden crowns. VP
5 And out of the throne proceed flashes of lightning and voices and thunders. And [there were] seven torches of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. VP
6 And before the throne [was] like a sea of glass, like crystal. And in [the] midst of the throne and around the throne [were] four living creatures, being full of eyes in front and behind. VP
7 And the first living creature [was] like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature having the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle flying. VP
8 And the four living creatures, one by one of them had six wings respectively, full of eyes all around and within; and they do not have rest day and night, saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, the [One] who was and who is and who is coming!” VP
9 And whenever the living creatures will give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the [One] sitting upon the throne, the [One] living to the ages of the ages, VP
10 the twenty-four elders will fall before the [One] sitting upon the throne, and they will worship the [One] living to the ages of the ages, and they will cast their crowns before the throne, saying: VP
11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.” VP