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Ezekiel 1:18

God's holiness

16 The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.

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

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

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

20 Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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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.
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.
DARBY
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
BLB
And [unto] their rims [was] height to them and fearsomeness to them, and their rims [were] full of eyes all around for the four of them.
ÅB
Hjulringene var høye og fryktelige, og de var fulle av øyne rundt omkring på alle de fire hjul.
OTB
Deres felger var høye og imponerende, og felgene på alle fire var fulle av øyne rundt omkring.
B1930
Hjulringene var høie og fryktelige, og de var fulle av øine rundt omkring på alle de fire hjul.

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  • Ezekiel 10:12

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

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  • Revelation 4:6

    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.

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  • Revelation 4:8

    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!”

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  • Psalms 97:2–5

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

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  • Psalms 77:16–19

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

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  • Job 37:22–24

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

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  • Proverbs 15:3

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

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  • 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.

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