Ezekiel 1:18 “Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes…”

Ezekiel 1:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“they were so”

Job 37:22–24 Psalm 77:16–19 Psalm 97:2–5 Isaiah 55:9

Job 37:22–24 · BSB

Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.

Psalm 77:16–19 · BSB

The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

Psalm 97:2–5 · BSB

Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

Isaiah 55:9 · BSB

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

“full”

Ezekiel 10:12 Revelation 4:6 Revelation 4:8 Proverbs 15:3 Zechariah 4:10

Ezekiel 10:12 · BSB

Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.

Revelation 4:6 · BSB

And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

Revelation 4:8 · BSB

And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Proverbs 15:3 · BSB

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Zechariah 4:10 · BSB

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

19So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

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