EZE 1:18 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX οὐδʼ οἱ νῶτοι αὐτῶν· καὶ ὕψος ἦν αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἴδον αὐτὰ, καὶ οἱ νῶτοι αὐτῶν πλήρεις ὀφθαλμῶν κυκλόθεν τοῖς τέσσαρσι.
(oudʼ hoi nōtoi autōn; kai hupsos aʸn autois; kai idon auta, kai hoi nōtoi autōn plaʸreis ofthalmōn kuklothen tois tessarsi. )

BrTr neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.

ULT As for their rims, they were high and fearsome, for the rims were full of eyes round about.

UST The rims of the wheels were imposing and frightening, and they were covered with eyes.

BSB Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

OEB And their felloes - they were high and dreadful - were full of eyes, on all sides.

WEBBE As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.

LSV As for their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings, of the four of them, [are] full of eyes around them.

FBV The wheel rims were impressively high, and all of the four rims were covered in eyes.

T4T The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.

LEB And their rims were high and awesome,[fn] and all four of[fn] their rims were full of eyes all around.

1:18 Literally “height was for them and awesomeness was for them”

1:18 Literally “of the four of them”

BBE And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of the four, were full of eyes round about.

Moff No Moff EZE book available

JPS As for their rings, they were high and they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.

ASV As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.

DRA The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.

YLT As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings [are] full of eyes round about them four.

Drby As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.

RV As for their rings, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.

Wbstr As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes around them four.

KJB-1769 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.[fn]

1.18 and their rings: or, and their strakes

KJB-1611 As for their rings, they were so high, that they were dreadful, and their [fn]rings were full of eyes round about them foure.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

1:18 Or, strakes.

Bshps They had ringes, and heyght, and were feareful to beholde: & their ringes were full of eyes rounde about them foure.
(They had ringes, and heyght, and were feareful to beholde: and their ringes were full of eyes round about them four.)

Gnva They had also rings, and height, and were fearefull to beholde, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them foure.
(They had also rings, and height, and were fearefull to behold, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them four. )

Cvdl They were large, greate and horrible to loke vpon. Their bodies were full off eyes rounde aboute them all foure. Whe the beestes wete, the wheles wente also with them:
(They were large, great and horrible to look upon. Their bodies were full off eyes round about them all four. Whe the beasts/animals wete, the wheles went also with them:)

Wycl Also stature, and hiynesse, and orible biholdyng was to the wheelis; and al the bodi was ful of iyen in the cumpas of tho foure.
(Also stature, and hiynesse, and orible biholdyng was to the wheelis; and all the body was full of eyes in the cumpas of those four.)

Luth Ihre Felgen und Höhe waren schrecklich; und ihre Felgen waren voller Augen um und um an allen vier Rädern.
(Ihre Felgen and Höhe were schrecklich; and their/her Felgen were voller Augen around/by/for and around/by/for at all four Rädern.)

ClVg Statura quoque erat rotis, et altitudo, et horribilis aspectus: et totum corpus oculis plenum in circuitu ipsarum quatuor.
(Statura too was rotis, and altitudo, and horribilis aspectus: and totum body oculis plenum in circuitu ipsarum four. )

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

God’s Glory with His People

In ancient Israel, God’s glory was particularly manifest at the central sanctuaries that had been built for him. When the Israelites completed construction of the Tabernacle, that sacred space became filled with the glory of the Lord (Exod 40:34-35). Likewise, after the Temple was completed and the Ark of the Covenant was brought in, God’s glorious presence filled the Temple (1 Kgs 8:10-11).

The presence and absence of God’s glory is a central theme in the book of Ezekiel. God’s glory appears to the prophet Ezekiel while he is exiled in Babylon, meaning that his glory was no longer present at the Temple in Jerusalem. The reason God’s glory had departed from the Temple at that time becomes clear in Ezekiel’s vision in Ezekiel 8–11, in which the prophet sees the abominations that had polluted the Temple in Jerusalem. Without God’s presence, the Temple had become an empty shell awaiting destruction. God was not forcibly evicted by the superior might of the Babylonian army; he voluntarily departed because his people were defiled. Their sin drove him away from the land he had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For a time, the Lord went from Jerusalem to Babylon to become a sanctuary for the exiles there (see 11:16).

God would not abandon his Temple forever. After pouring out his wrath in full measure, he would restore a remnant to their land and sanctify them by his Spirit so that he could once again dwell in their midst in a new sanctuary (37:26). God’s glory, dwelling among his people forever (43:1-5), is at the heart of Ezekiel’s vision of their restoration.

The glory of God has come to live among us fully in the person of Jesus Christ. As John testifies, “We have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son” (John 1:14). The aged Simeon saw the baby Jesus brought to the Temple and described him as “a light to reveal God to the nations, and . . . the glory of your people Israel” (Luke 2:32). Jesus’ glory was veiled while he was on earth, though for a moment on the Mount of Transfiguration his radiance was revealed to his closest disciples (Matt 17:2). He experienced his own abandonment by God as he hung on the cross, bearing the curse for our sin (Matt 27:46). Now, as the exalted and glorified Lord, he sits at God’s right hand (Eph 1:19-20). By his Spirit, he has promised never to abandon us, but to be with us to the end of time (Matt 28:20).

Passages for Further Study

Exod 15:11; 33:18–34:8; 40:34; Ps 19:1-11; Isa 4:5-6; 6:3; 40:5; 42:8; 43:7; 58:8; 60:1-2; Ezek 1:1-28; 11:16; 37:26; 43:1-5; 44:4; Hab 2:14; Matt 17:2; 28:20; Luke 2:32; John 1:14; 2 Cor 4:4-6; Heb 1:3; Rev 21:10-11, 23

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) As for their rims

(Some words not found in UHB: and,rims,their and,tall to/for=them and,awesome to/for=them and,rims,their full_of eyes all_around to,four,them )

Alternate translation: “This is what the rims of the wheels looked like”

(Occurrence 0) they were high and fearsome

(Some words not found in UHB: and,rims,their and,tall to/for=them and,awesome to/for=them and,rims,their full_of eyes all_around to,four,them )

Alternate translation: “the rims were very tall and awe-inspiring” or “the rims where tall and frightening”

(Occurrence 0) for the rims were full of eyes round about

(Some words not found in UHB: and,rims,their and,tall to/for=them and,awesome to/for=them and,rims,their full_of eyes all_around to,four,them )

Alternate translation: “because the rims had very many eyes around all four of the wheels”

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