1After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, [a voice] as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying,
2And straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;
3and he that sat [was] to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
4And round about the throne [were] twenty-four thrones: and upon the thrones I saw the twenty-four elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5And out of the throne proceed lightnings and thunders and voices. And [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
6and before the throne a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
7And the first creature [was] like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature [was] like a flying eagle.
8And the four living creatures, having each one six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying,
9And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth forever and ever,
10the twenty-four elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and worship him that liveth forever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they are, and were created.