Eze 1:27-28 | NET2full | STEP | I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up . From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire . There was a brilliant light around it,

‏ Ezekiel 1:27-28

27 I saw an amber glow ^{▼▼tn See Ezek 1:4.} like a fire enclosed all around ^{▼▼tc The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kemarʾeh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmarʾeh). On the other hand, the LXX presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.} from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it, 28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ^{▼▼sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.} This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ^{▼▼tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.} it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.