1 GLT After these things I looked and behold, a door opened in heaven and the first voice like a trumpet that I had heard speaking with me saying,“Come up here and I will show you what must happen after these things.” BSB BSB: After 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.”
2 GLT Immediately I was in the Spirit and behold, a throne was appearing in heaven, and on the throne one sitting. BSB BSB: At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
3 GLT And the one sitting{ was} like in appearance to a jasper stone and to a carnelian, and a rainbow{ was} around the throne, like in appearance to an emerald. BSB BSB: The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
4 GLT And around the throne{ were} 24 thrones, and sitting on the thrones{ were} 24 elders dressed in white garments, and on their heads{ were} golden crowns. BSB BSB: Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
5 GLT And from the throne come out lightnings and sounds and thunders, and seven lamps of fire burn before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. BSB BSB: From 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.
6 GLT And before the throne{ was} as a glass sea, like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne{ were} four living creatures, being full of eyes before and behind. BSB BSB: And 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.
7 GLT And the first living creature{ was} like a lion, and the second living creature{ was} like a calf, and the third living creature having a face as of a man, and the fourth living creature{ was} like a flying eagle. BSB BSB: The 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.
8 GLT And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings apiece, being full of eyes around and underneath, indeed do not have rest night and day, saying,“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Ruler of All, the one having been and the one being and the one coming.” BSB BSB: And 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!”
9 GLT And whenever the living creatures will give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne, the one living to the ages of the ages, BSB BSB: And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
10 GLT the 24 elders will fall before the one sitting on the throne and worship the one living to the ages of the ages, and they will lay their crowns before the throne, saying, BSB BSB: the 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 GLT “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” BSB BSB: “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.”
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