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The Four Wheels

Ezekiel 1:18

In 11 translations

BSB
Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
KJV
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.and their rings: or, and their strakes
WEB
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
ASV
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
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.
YLT
As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings [are] full of eyes round about them four.
DBY
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
DRC
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.
GNV
They had also rings, and height, and were fearefull to beholde, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them foure.
JPS
As for their rings, they were high and they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.
LXXE
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.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְגַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן וְגֹ֥בַהּ לָהֶ֖ם וְיִרְאָ֣ה לָהֶ֑ם וְגַבֹּתָ֗ם מְלֵאֹ֥ת עֵינַ֛יִם סָבִ֖יב לְאַרְבַּעְתָּֽן׃
LXX-Br
οὐδʼ οἱ νῶτοι αὐτῶν· καὶ ὕψος ἦν αὐτοῖς· καὶ ἴδον αὐτὰ, καὶ οἱ νῶτοι αὐτῶν πλήρεις ὀφθαλμῶν κυκλόθεν τοῖς τέσσαρσι.

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  • Ezekiel 10:12Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
  • Revelation 4:8And 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!”
  • Revelation 4:6And 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.
  • Zechariah 4:10For 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.”
  • Psalms 97:2–5Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation. Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side. His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles. The…
  • Job 37:22–24Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. Therefore, men fear…
  • Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Psalms 77:16–19The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken. The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. Your thunder resounded in the…
  • Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

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