启4:1 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像号筒的声音，对我说：“你上这里来！我要把以后必定发生的事指示你。”
启4:1 After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come.
启4:2 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。
启4:2 Straight away I was in the Spirit: and I saw a high seat in heaven, and one was seated on it;
启4:3 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。
启4:3 And to my eyes he was like a jasper and a sardius stone: and there was an arch of light round the high seat, like an emerald.
启4:4 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。
启4:4 And round about the high seat were four and twenty seats: and on them I saw four and twenty rulers seated, clothed in white robes; and on their heads crowns of gold.
启4:5 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。
启4:5 And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;
启4:6 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。
启4:6 And before the high seat there was, as it seemed, a clear sea of glass; and in the middle of the high seat, and round about it, four beasts full of eyes round about.
启4:7 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。
启4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second like an ox, and the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
启4:8 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。”
启4:8 And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.
启4:9 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，
启4:9 And when the beasts give glory and honour to him who is seated on the high seat, to him who is living for ever and ever,
启4:10 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：
启4:10 The four and twenty rulers go down on their faces before him who is seated on the high seat, and give worship to him who is living for ever and ever, and take off their crowns before the high seat, saying,
启4:11 “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。”
启4:11 It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.