启示录 4
1 此后，我观看，见天上有门开了。我初次听见好像吹号的声音，对我说：“你上到这里来，我要将以后必成的事指示你。”
After this I saw a door that had been opened in heaven. The voice that I'd heard before, the one that sounded like a trumpet, told me, “Come up here, and I will show you what will happen next.”
2 我立刻被圣灵感动，见有一个宝座安置在天上，又有一位坐在宝座上。
Immediately I was filled by the Spirit and saw a throne set up in heaven, with someone sitting on the throne.
3 看那坐着的，好像碧玉和红宝石；又有虹围着宝座，好像绿宝石。
The one sitting there shone like jewels, like jasper and carnelian, and there was a rainbow that circled the throne, shining like an emerald.
4 宝座的周围又有二十四个座位；其上坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头上戴着金冠冕。
Around the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and twenty-four elders were sitting on these thrones, dressed in white and wearing golden crowns on their heads.
5 有闪电、声音、雷轰从宝座中发出；又有七盏火灯在宝座前点着；这七灯就是 神的七灵。
From the throne lightning flashed and thunder roared. Seven torches blazed in front of the throne—these are the seven Spirits of God.
6 宝座前好像一个玻璃海，如同水晶。 宝座中和宝座周围有四个活物，前后遍体都满了眼睛。
Stretching out in front of the throne was a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center and all around the throne were four living creatures covered in eyes, both front and back.
7 第一个活物像狮子，第二个像牛犊，第三个脸面像人，第四个像飞鹰。
The first creature looked like a lion, the second like a young bull, the third had a human face, and the fourth looked like a flying eagle.
8 四活物各有六个翅膀，遍体内外都满了眼睛。他们昼夜不住地说： 圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！ 主 神是昔在、今在、 以后永在的全能者。
The four living creatures each had six wings also covered with eyes. Day and night they never stop saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the All-powerful Lord God, who was, who is, and who is to come.”
Whenever the living creatures glorify, honor, and thank the one that sits on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, (aiōn g165)
the twenty-four elders fall down before him that sits on the throne. They will worship the one who lives for ever and ever, and throw down their crowns before the throne. They say, (aiōn g165)
11 我们的主，我们的 神， 你是配得荣耀、尊贵、权柄的； 因为你创造了万物， 并且万物是因你的旨意被创造而有的。
“Our Lord and our God, you are worthy to be given glory, and honor, and authority, for you created everything. Your will brought Creation into existence.”
