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 behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.

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

²Immediately I became in [the] Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting,

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

³and he [that was] sitting like in appearance to a stone [of] jasper and a sardius, and a rainbow round the throne like in appearance to 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 round the throne twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders sitting, clothed with white garments; and on their heads golden crowns.

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

⁵And out of the throne go forth lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and seven lamps of fire, 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, as a glass sea, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, 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 like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature having the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.

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 one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

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

⁹And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanksgiving to him that sits upon the throne, who lives to the ages of 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:

¹⁰the twenty-four elders shall fall before him that sits upon the throne, and do homage to him that lives to the ages of ages; and shall 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.

¹¹Thou art worthy, O our Lord and [our] God, to receive glory and honour and power; for *thou* hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and they have been created.