Ezekiel 1:28

1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ¹  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ²  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Daniel 8:17

8:17 So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. ³  Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, ⁴  that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”

Daniel 10:8-9

10:8 I alone was left to see this great vision. My strength drained from ⁵  me, and my vigor disappeared; ⁶  I was without energy. ⁷  10:9 I listened to his voice, ⁸  and as I did so ⁹  I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

Revelation 1:17

1:17 When ¹⁰  I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but ¹¹  he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

Revelation 4:10

4:10 the twenty-four elders throw themselves to the ground ¹²  before the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever, and they offer their crowns ¹³  before his ¹⁴  throne, saying:

Revelation 5:8

5:8 and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground ¹⁵  before the Lamb. Each ¹⁶  of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints). ¹⁷ 

Revelation 5:14

5:14 And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground ¹⁸  and worshiped.

¹ sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.

² tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.

³ tn Heb “on my face.”

⁴ tn Or “human one.”

⁵ tn Heb “did not remain in.”

⁶ tn Heb “was changed upon me for ruin.”

⁷ tn Heb “strength.”

⁸ tc Heb “I heard the sound of his words.” These words are absent in the LXX and the Syriac.

⁹ tn Heb “as I listened to the sound of his words.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “And when.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

¹¹ tn Here the Greek conjunction καί (kai) has been translated as a contrastive (“but”) due to the contrast between the two clauses.

¹² tn Grk “the twenty-four elders fall down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

¹³ sn See the note on the word crown in Rev 3:11.

¹⁴ tn The pronoun “his” is understood from the demonstrative force of the article τοῦ (tou) before θρόνου (qronou).

¹⁵ tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

¹⁶ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

¹⁷ sn This interpretive comment by the author forms a parenthesis in the narrative.

¹⁸ tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”