Ezekiel 1:28

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ¹  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ²  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Ge 9:13-16; Ge 17:3; Ex 16:7,10; Ex 24:16; Ex 33:18-23; Le 9:24; Nu 12:6-8; 1Ki 8:10,11; Isa 54:8-10; Eze 3:23; Eze 8:4; Eze 10:19,20; Eze 43:3; Da 8:17; Da 10:7-9,16,17; Mt 17:5,6; Ac 9:4; 1Co 13:12; Re 1:17,18; Re 4:3; Re 10:1

¹ 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.

² tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.