天上的敬拜
这些事以后，我观看，看见天上有一道门开着。我头一次听见的那好像吹号的声音对我说：“你上这里来，我要把此后必须发生的事指示你。”
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2我立刻被圣灵感动，见有一个宝座安置在天上，有一位坐在宝座上。And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3那坐着的，看来好像碧玉和红宝石；又有彩虹围着宝座，光彩好像绿宝石。And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
4宝座的周围又有二十四个座位，上面坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头上戴着金冠冕。And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5有闪电、声音、雷轰从宝座中发出。在宝座前点着七支火炬，就是神的七灵。And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
6宝座前有一个如同水晶的玻璃海。宝座的周围，四边有四个活物，遍体前后都长满了眼睛。
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7第一个活物像狮子，第二个像牛犊，第三个的脸像人脸，第四个像飞鹰。And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
8四个活物各有六个翅膀，遍体内外都长满了眼睛。他们昼夜不住地说： “圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！ 主—全能的神； 昔在、今在、以后永在！”And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9每逢四活物将荣耀、尊贵、感谢归给那坐在宝座上、活到永永远远者的时候，And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10二十四位长老就俯伏敬拜坐在宝座上活到永永远远的那一位，又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前，说：The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11“我们的主，我们的神， 你配得荣耀、尊贵、权柄， 因为你创造了万物， 万物因你的旨意被创造而存在。”Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.