¹Shure kwaizvozvi ndakaona, zvino tarira, mukova wakazaruka kudenga; nenzwi rekutanga randakanzwa rakaita seraiva rehwamanda richitaura neni; richiti: Kwira pano, ndigokuratidza zvinhu zvinofanira kuitika shure kwaizvozvi.

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;`

²Pakarepo ndakava muMweya; zvino tarira, chigaro cheushe chakagadzwa kudenga, neumwe agere pachigaro cheushe.

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

³Iye wakange agere wakange akafanana nebwe rejasipisi* neresadhio*; kwakange kune murarabungu wakakomberedza chigaro cheushe, waitaridzika sebwe reemaradhi*.

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.

⁴Kwakange kune zvigaro zveushe makumi maviri nezvina zvakange zvakakomberedza chigaro cheushe; nepazvigaro ndakaona vakuru makumi maviri nevana vagere vakapfeka nguvo chena; vakange vane korona dzendarama pamisoro yavo.

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;

⁵Nepachigaro cheushe pakabuda mheni, nekutinhira nemanzwi; nemwenje minomwe yemoto yakange ichipfuta pamberi pechigaro cheushe, iri Mweya minomwe yaMwari.

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,

⁶Pamberi pechigaro cheushe pakange pane gungwa regirazi, rakafanana nekrisitaro*; nepakati pechigaro cheushe, nepakapoteredza chigaro cheushe pakange pane zvisikwa zvina zvipenyu, zvizere nemeso mberi neshure.

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;

⁷Uye chisikwa chipenyu chekutanga chakange chakafanana neshumba, chisikwa chipenyu chechipiri chakafanana nemhuru, chisikwa chipenyu chechitatu chakange chine chiso chemunhu, nechisikwa chipenyu chechina chakange chakafanana negondo rinobururuka.

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.

⁸Nezvisikwa zvipenyu izvi chimwe nechimwe chakange chine mapapiro matanhatu azere nemeso kunhivi dzose nemukati; haazorori masikati neusiku, achiti: Mutsvene mutsvene mutsvene, iye Ishe Mwari, wemasimba ose, wakange aripo, uripo, neuchazouya.

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;`

⁹Zvino kana zvisikwa zvipenyu izvi zvichimupa rukudzo nekubwinya nekuvongwa iye unogara pachigaro cheushe, iye uri mupenyu kusvikira rinhi narinhi.

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,

¹⁰Vakuru makumi maviri nevana vakazviwisira pasi pamberi paiye ugere pachigaro cheushe vakamushumira iye uri mupenyu kusvikira rinhi narinhi, vachikandira korona dzavo pamberi pechigaro cheushe, vachiti:

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,

¹¹Imwi, makafanira, Ishe, Mwari wedu, kugamuchira kubwinya, nerukudzo, nesimba, nekuti ndimwi makasika zvinhu zvose, zvakavapo, zvakasikwa nekuda kwenyu.

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.`