Apocalipse 4

Te Koropikotanga i te Rangi

1 Muri iho i ēnei mea ka kite ahau, nā, he tatau kua oti te whakapuare i te rangi, ā, ko te reo tuatahi i rongo ai ahau me te mea he reo nō tētahi tētere e kī mai ana ki ahau, e mea ana, "Haere mai ki runga nei, ā, ka whakakitea e ahau ki a koe ngā mea kua takoto mō muri i ēnei." 2 I reira pū anō kua nohoia ahau e te Wairua; nā, he torōna kua tū ki te rangi, ā, ko tētahi i runga i te torōna e noho ana. 3 Ā, ko tērā i noho rā rite tonu ki te titiro atu ki te kōhatu hahapa, ki te harariu. He āniwaniwa hoki i ngā taha katoa o te torōna, ko te āhua ki te titiro atu kei tō te emerara. 4 Nā, i ngā taha katoa o te torōna ētahi torōna e rua tekau mā whā, ā, ka kite ahau i runga i ngā torōna ko ngā kaumātua e rua tekau mā whā e noho ana, he mea whakakākahu ki te kākahu mā; he karauna kōura i runga ō rātou mātenga. 5 Nā, ka puta mai i roto i te torōna he uira, he reo, he whatitiri. Ā, tērā ngā rama ahi e whitu e kā ana i mua i te torōna; ko ngā Wairua e whitu ēnei o te Atua. 6 I mua, i te torōna anō he moana karaihe, te rite kei te haupapa.

Ā, i waenganui o te torōna, i ngā taha katoa anō o te torōna, ko ngā mea ora e whā, kapi tonu ā mua, ā muri o rātou i te kanohi. 7 Ko te tuatahi o ngā mea ora i rite ki te raiona, ko te tuarua o ngā mea ora i rite ki te kūao kau, ko te mata o te tuatoru o ngā mea ora i rite ki tō te tangata, ā, ko te tuawhā o ngā mea ora i rite ki te ēkara e rere ana. 8 Nā, ko aua mea ora e whā, he parirau ō rātou, e ono o tēnā, o tēnā, i ngā taha katoa; kī tonu hoki a roto o rātou me ngā taha i te kanohi. Ā, kāhore he tānga i te ao, i te pō, he mea tonu tā rātou,

"Tapu, tapu, tapu, te Ariki, te Atua Kaha Rawa,

i mua nei ia, tēnei anō ināianei, ā, e haere mai nei."

9 Ā, i te mea ka hoatu e ngā mea ora te korōria, te hōnore, te whakawhetai ki tērā e noho ana i runga i te torōna, e ora ana ake ake, 10 ka hinga iho ngā kaumātua e rua tekau mā whā ki te aroaro o tērā e noho rā i runga i te torōna, nā, ka koropiko ki a ia e ora tonu nei ake ake, ka panga hoki i ō rātou karauna ki mua o te torōna, ka mea,

11 "Tika tonu, e te Ariki,

kia riro i a koe te korōria, me te hōnore, me te kaha.

Nāu hoki i hanga ngā mea katoa,

ā, nāu i pai i takoto ai aua mea, i hangā ai."

1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. 2 Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 3 and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying,

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

9 And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever, 10 the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.