Ezekiel 1:16
Hebrew Text— Ezekiel 1:16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.
I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.