Revelation 5:8

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground ¹  before the Lamb. Each ²  of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints). ³ 

Ps 33:2; Ps 43:4; Ps 81:2; Ps 141:2; Ps 150:3; Joh 5:23; Ro 14:10-12; Php 2:9-11; Heb 1:6; Re 4:4,8,10; Re 5:14; Re 7:10-12; Re 8:3,4; Re 14:2,3; Re 15:2; Re 15:7; Re 19:4

¹ 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.”

² tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

³ sn This interpretive comment by the author forms a parenthesis in the narrative.