Revelation · Chapter 4

[ edit] Aftir þeſe þingis I ſiȝe, and lo! a dore openyd in heuene. And þe firſte voys þat I herde, as of a trumpe ſpekinge wiþ me, ſeiynge, Stiȝe vp hidir, and I ſhal ſhewe to þee whiche þinges it bihoueþ for to be don ſoone aftir þes þinges. Anoon I was in ſpirit, and lo! a ſeete was put in heuen, and on þe ſeete oon ſittinge. And he þat ſat, was lijk þe ſiȝt of a ſtoon iaſpis, and to ſardyn; and þe reynbowe was in cumpas of þe ſeete, lijk to þe ſiȝt of ſmaragdyn. And in þe cumpas of þe ſeete foure and twenty ſmale ſeetes; and vpon þe troones foure and twenty eldre ſittynge, gyrd aboute wiþ white cloþis, and in þe heedis of hem golden crownes.

And leytinges, and voyces, and þundringes camen out of þe troone; and ſeuen laumpes brennynge bifore þe troone, þe whiche ben ſeuen ſpirites of God. And in þe ſiȝt of þe ſeete, as a ſe of glas, lijk to criſtal; and in þe mydle of þe ſeete, and in cumpas of þe ſeete, foure beeſtes ful of iȝen bifore and bihynde. And þe firſt beeſte lijk to a lyon; and þe ſecounde beeſt lijk to a calf; and þe þridde beeſt hauynge a face as of a man; and þe fourþe beeſt lijk to an egle fleynge.

And þe foure beeſtes hadden ech of hem ſixe wynges; and in cumpas and wiþ inne þei ben ful of iȝen; and þei hadden not reſte dai and nyȝt, ſeiynge, Holy, holy, holy, þe Lord God almyȝti, þat was, and þat is, and þat is to comynge. And whanne þo foure beeſtis ȝauen glorie, and honour, and bleſſing to þe ſittinge on þe troone, to þe lyuynge in to worldlis of worldlis, þe foure and twenty eldre fellen doun bifore þe ſittyng in troone, and worſchipeden þe lyuynge in to worldlis of worldlis.

And þei ſenten her crownes bifore þe trone, ſeiynge, Þou, Lord oure God, art worþi for to take glory, and honour, and vertu; for þou madiſt of nouȝt alle þinges, and for þi wille þei weren, and ben maad of nouȝt.