OrthJBC - Revelation of John - 4

4:1  After these things I looked, and--hinei!--a delet (door) having been opened in Shomayim, the kol harishon [1:10], the voice like a shofar that I heard speaking to me, said, "Come up here! And I will show you MAH DI LEHEVE ("what will happen," Daniel 2:28f) after these things."

4:2  At once I was in the Ruach Hakodesh, and--hinei!-- there in Shomayim stood a kisseh, and upon the kisseh DEMUT KEMAREH ADAM ("a figure in appearance like a Man," Yechezkel 1:26-28), [Melachim Alef 22:19; Yeshayah 6:1; Daniel 7:9]

4:3  and the One sitting was like KEMAREH ("in appearance") jasper stone and carnelian, and a keshet (rainbow, Bereshis 9:16) was around the kisseh that looks like an emerald. [Yechezkel 1:28]

4:4  And around the kisseh were esrim v'arba'ah kisot (twenty-four thrones) and on the kisaot were sitting esrim v'arba'ah Zekenim, each clothed in lavan, each wearing a kittel, and on the roshim of them, golden atarot (crowns).

4:5  And out of the kisseh comes forth lightning and sounds and thunders and there were sheva lapidei aish (torches of aish) burning before the kisseh, which are the sheva ruchot (spirits, 1:4) of Hashem [Shemot 19:16; Zecharyah 4:2].

4:6  And before the kisseh there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal. And on each side and around the kisseh there were Arbah Chayyot (four living beings), being full of eynayim in front and in back. [Yechezkel 1:5]

4:7  And HaRishonah of HaChayyot [Yechezkel 1:10; 1:14] was like an aryeh (lion), and Hasheniyah of HaChayyot like an egel (calf), and HaShlishit of HaChayyot had the face of a ben Adam, MESHORORIM (SINGERS) AROUND THE KISSEH

4:8  and HaReve'it of HaChayyot was like a flying nesher (eagle). And the Arba Chayyot, each one of them had six wings, and these wings, around and within were full of eynayim. And yomam valailah, they do not cease to rest but continue singing, "Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, Hashem Adonoi Tzvaot, the One who was and is and is to come." [Yeshayah 6:2; Yechezkel 1:18; Yeshayah 6:3]

4:9  And whenever the Chayyot will give kavod (glory) and hod (splendor) and hadar (majesty) and shevakh (praise) to the One sitting on the kisseh, to Him that Hu Chai ad olemei olamim, [Tehillim 47:8]

4:10  Then the esrim v'arba'ah Zekenim fall prostrate before the One sitting on the kisseh and worship the One that Hu Chai ad olemei olamim and cast down the atarot of them before the kisseh, saying, [Devarim 33:3]

4:11  "Worthy art thou, Adoneinu and Eloheinu, to receive hod (honor) and hadar (splendor) and oz (power), because it was your "barah" that created all things, and because they existed and came to be by your ratzon.