Ezekiel 1:18

What does Ezekiel 1:18 mean?

A plain-English look at Ezekiel 1:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings <FI>are<Fi> full of eyes round about them four.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.17When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.

v.18This passage

v.19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 4:6

    and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

  • Ezekiel 10:12

    And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

  • Zechariah 4:10

    For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

  • Proverbs 15:3

    The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

  • Isaiah 55:9

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

  • Revelation 4:8

    And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, isthe Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

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