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 · 2000As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
KJV
King James Version · 1611As 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 · 1901As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of the four, were full of eyes round about.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862As 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) · 1752The 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 · 1890As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
Context
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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