启示录 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
天上的敬拜
4 这些事以后，我观看，见天上有一道门开着；并且有我第一次听见的那个好象号筒的声音，对我说：“你上这里来！我要把以后必定发生的事指示你。” 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。 3 那位坐着的，看来好象碧玉和红宝石，又有彩虹围绕着宝座，看来好象绿宝石。 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。 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。 6 宝座前有一个看来好象水晶的玻璃海。
在宝座中间和宝座周围有四个活物，前后布满了眼睛。 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。 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、以后要来的那一位。”
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， 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：
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。”
Revelation 4
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
A Voice Says, Come Up To Heaven And See Things Which Must Take Place After These Things
4 After these things I saw, and behold— there was an opened door in heaven, and the first voice which I heard speaking with me like [the sound] of a trumpet saying, “Come-up here and I will show you the things which must take-place after these things”. 2 Immediately I came-to-be in the Spirit[a].
Vision 1: The Scroll With Seven Seals. The Heavenly Scene
And behold— a throne was setting there in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. 3 And the One sitting was resembling[b] a jasper stone and a carnelian in appearance. And a rainbow[c] was around the throne resembling an emerald in appearance. 4 And around the throne I saw twenty four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty four elders sitting, having been clothed in white garments, and golden crowns[d] on their heads. 5 And lightnings[e] and voices[f] and thunders[g] are coming-out from the throne. And seven torches[h] of fire are burning before the throne (which are the seven[i] Spirits of God). 6 And before the throne is something like a sea of-glass[j], resembling crystal. And in the midst of the throne and around the throne are four living-creatures[k] being full of eyes on the front and on the back. 7 And the first living-creature is resembling a lion. And the second living-creature is resembling a calf. And the third living-creature is having the face like of a man[l]. And the fourth living-creature is resembling a flying eagle. 8 And the four living-creatures, each one of them having six wings apiece, are full of eyes around and inside[m]. And they do not have a rest[n] by day and by night, saying “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, the One Who was and Who is and Who is coming”. 9 And whenever the living-creatures will give glory and honor and thanks to the One sitting on the throne, to the One living forever and ever, 10 the twenty four elders will fall before the One sitting on the throne, and will give-worship to the One living forever and ever, and will cast[o] their crowns before the throne, saying 11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because You created all things. And they existed and were created because-of Your will”.
Footnotes
- Revelation 4:2 See 1:10.
- Revelation 4:3 That is, in color.
- Revelation 4:3 Or, halo.
- Revelation 4:4 Or, wreaths. That is, victor’s-crowns.
- Revelation 4:5 That is, bolts or flashes of lightning.
- Revelation 4:5 Or, sounds.
- Revelation 4:5 That is, crashes or peals of thunder.
- Revelation 4:5 Or, lamps.
- Revelation 4:5 See 1:4.
- Revelation 4:6 That is, made of glass.
- Revelation 4:6 Or, living-beings, living-ones.
- Revelation 4:7 Or, human.
- Revelation 4:8 That is, under their wings.
- Revelation 4:8 Or, cessation. That is, they say this both daytime and nighttime, with no stopping for sleep (not, over and over without any pause).
- Revelation 4:10 Or, throw, put. They repeatedly cast their crowns, v 9.
Chinese New Version (CNV). Copyright © 1976, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2005 by Worldwide Bible Society.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing
