Eze 1:27-28 | NETfull | 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 ^{▼▼ See Ezek 1:4.} like a fire enclosed all around ^{▼▼ The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (k^emar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). 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. ^{▼▼ 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 ^{▼▼ 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.