Ezekiel 1:22

1:22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, ¹  glittering awesomely like ice, ²  stretched out over their heads.

Ezekiel 1:26-28

1:26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man. 1:27 I saw an amber glow ³  like a fire enclosed all around ⁴  from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it, 1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ⁵  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ⁶  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

¹ tn Or “like a dome” (NCV, NRSV, TEV).

² tn Or “like crystal” (NRSV, NLT).

³ tn See Ezek 1:4.

⁴ 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 (kÿmar’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.

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.