¹天上的敬拜

¹After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard [is] as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;`

²立刻，我在灵里，就看见有一个宝座，设立在天上，有一位坐在宝座上。

²and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is [one] sitting,

³那位坐着的，看来好像碧玉和红宝石，又有彩虹围绕着宝座，看来好像绿宝石。

³and He who is sitting was in sight like a stone, jasper and sardine: and a rainbow was round the throne in sight like an emerald.

⁴宝座的周围有二十四个座位，上面坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头戴金冠。

⁴And around the throne [are] thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;

⁵有闪电、响声、雷轰从宝座中发出；又有七枝火炬在宝座前点着，这就是　神的七灵。

⁵and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders, and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,

⁶宝座前有一个看来好像水晶的玻璃海。在宝座中间和宝座周围有四个活物，前后布满了眼睛。

⁶and before the throne [is] a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, [are] four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;

⁷第一个活物像狮子，第二个活物像牛犊，第三个活物的脸面像人，第四个活物像飞鹰。

⁷and the first living creature [is] like a lion, and the second living creature [is] like a calf, and the third living creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature [is] like an eagle flying.

⁸四个活物各有六个翅膀，里外布满了眼睛。他们昼夜不停地说：“圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！主、全能的　神，昔在、今在、以后永在的那一位。”

⁸And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within [are] full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;`

⁹每逢四个活物把荣耀、尊贵、感谢献给那坐在宝座上，活到永永远远的那一位的时候，

⁹and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,

¹⁰二十四位长老就俯伏在坐在宝座上那一位的面前，敬拜那活到永永远远的，又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前，说：

¹⁰fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

¹¹“主、我们的　神，你是配得荣耀、尊贵、权能的，因为你创造了万有，万有都是因着你的旨意而存在，而被造的。”

¹¹`Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou — Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.`