Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a shofar speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
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Then I looked, and, oh! - a door open into Heaven. The trumpet-voice, the first voice in my vision, called out, "Ascend and enter. I'll show you what happens next."
2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
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I was caught up at once in deep worship and, oh! - a Throne set in Heaven with One Seated on the Throne,
3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an yahalom to look at.
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suffused in gem hues of amber and flame with a nimbus of emerald.
4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four Zakenim sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
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Twenty-four thrones circled the Throne, with Twenty-four Elders seated, white-robed, gold-crowned.
5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
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Lightning flash and thunder crash pulsed from the Throne. Seven fire-blazing torches fronted the Throne (these are the Sevenfold Spirit of God).
6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, like a crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
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Before the Throne it was like a clear crystal sea.
7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.
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The first Animal like a lion, the second like an ox, the third with a human face, the fourth like an eagle in flight.
8 and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, Shaddai, who was and who is and who is to come.
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The Four Animals were winged, each with six wings. They were all eyes, seeing around and within. And they chanted night and day, never taking a break: Holy, holy, holy Is God our Master, Sovereign-Strong, The Was, The Is, The Coming.
9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
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Every time the Animals gave glory and honor and thanks to the One Seated on the Throne - the age-after-age Living One -
10 the twenty-four Zakenim fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and will throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
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the Twenty-four Elders would fall prostrate before the One Seated on the Throne. They worshiped the age-after-age Living One. They threw their crowns at the foot of the Throne, chanting,
11 "Worthy are you, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created."
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Worthy, O Master! Yes, our God! Take the glory! the honor! the power! You created it all; It was created because you wanted it.
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