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Ezekiel 1:18

God's holiness

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

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

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature 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

    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.

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  • Revelation 4:6

    And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

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  • Revelation 4:8

    And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

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  • Psalms 97:2–5

    Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

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  • Psalms 77:16–19

    The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

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  • Job 37:22–24

    Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

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  • Proverbs 15:3

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

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  • 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.

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