16. The twenty-four elders who sat on their thrones before God prostrated themselves and worshiped God
17. and said:“We give thanks to you, Lord God almighty,who are and who were.For you have assumed your great powerand have established your reign.
18. The nations raged,but your wrath has come,and the time for the dead to be judged,and to recompense your servants, the prophets,and the holy ones and those who fear your name,the small and the great alike,and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
19. Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.