Revelation 1:15

Jesus Christ

¹³ And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
KJV: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
WEB: His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
ASV: and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
DARBY: and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters;
BLB: and His feet like burnished bronze, as having been refined in a furnace, and His voice as a voice of many waters,

ÅB: og hans føtter var lik skinnende kobber, som om de var gjort glødende i en ovn, og hans røst som en lyd av mange vann.
OTB: Hans føtter var som bronse som gløder i en ovn, og hans røst var som lyden av mange vann.
B1930: og hans føtter var lik skinnende kobber, som om de var gjort glødende i en ovn, og hans røst som en lyd av mange vann.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 43:2
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
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Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
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Revelation 14:2
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
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Revelation 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
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Psalms 93:4
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
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Revelation 2:18
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
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Ezekiel 1:7
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
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Ezekiel 40:3
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
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