Ezekiel 10:13 I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels."

◄ Ezekiel 10:13 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels."

English Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing “the whirling wheels.”

New American Standard Bible
The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

King James Bible
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As I listened the wheels were called "the wheelwork."

International Standard Version
The wheels whose sound I was hearing were called "the whirling wheels".

American Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels .

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.

Darby Bible Translation
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Galgal.

Young's Literal Translation
To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, 'O wheel!'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:8-22 Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world, and the affairs of it. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, angels above, and all events below, further his departure. The Spirit of life, the Spirit of God, directs all creatures, in heaven and on earth, so as to make them serve the Divine purpose. God removes by degrees from a provoking people; and, when ready to depart, would return to them, if they were a repenting, praying people. Let this warn sinners to seek the Lord while he may be found, and to call on him while he is near, and cause us all to walk humbly and watchfully with our God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. O wheel—rather, "they were called, whirling," that is, they were most rapid in their revolutions [Maurer]; or, better, "It was cried unto them, The whirling" [Fairbairn]. Galgal here used for "wheel," is different from ophan, the simple word for "wheel." Galgal is the whole wheelwork machinery with its whirlwind-like rotation. Their being so addressed is in order to call them immediately to put themselves in rapid motion.