Ezekiel 3:12

Bible in Basic English

Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Spirit then lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me—bless the glory of the Lord in his place!—

Hebrew Names Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

King James Version
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.

English Standard Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from its place!"

New American Standard Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: "Blessed be the glory of the LORD from His place!"

New Century Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me, saying, "Praise the glory of the Lord in heaven."

Amplified Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rushing sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place [above the expanse]."

World English Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the spirite tooke me vp, and I heard behinde me a noise of a great russhing, saying, Blessed be ye glorie of the Lord out of his place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place."

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of Yahweh in His place."

Berean Standard Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me-blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!-

Contemporary English Version
The Spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the Lord started to leave, I heard a loud, thundering noise behind me.

Complete Jewish Bible
A spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a very loud sound — blessed be the glory of Adonai from his place!

Darby Translation
And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, [saying,] Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place!

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a voice behind me. It was very loud, like thunder. It said, "Blessed is the Glory of the Lord !"

George Lamsa Translation
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

Good News Translation
Then God's spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the loud roar of a voice that said, "Praise the glory of the Lord in heaven above!"

Lexham English Bible
And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake when the glory of Yahweh rose from its place.

Literal Translation
And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a sound of a great tumult, saying , Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from His place!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
With that, the sprete toke me vp. And I herde the noyse of a greate russhinge and remouynge off the most blissed glory off the LORDE out off his place.

American Standard Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then a spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing: 'Blessed be the glory of the LORD from His place';

King James Version (1611)
Then the spirit tooke me vp, and I heard behind me a voyce of a great rushing, saying Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
With that the spirite tooke me vp, and I hearde behinde me a voyce of a great rushing [to wit] Blessed be the glory of Iehouah from his place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.

English Revised Version
Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the spirit took me, and Y herde after me the vois of a greet mouyng. The blessid glorie of the Lord was herd fro his place;

Update Bible Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place.

New English Translation
Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,

New King James Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: "Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!"

New Living Translation
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the Lord be praised in his place!)

New Life Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud sounding voice behind me say, "Great is the shining-greatness of the Lord from His place."

New Revised Standard
Then the spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the Lord rose from its place, I heard behind me the sound of loud rumbling;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, - Blessed be the glory of Yahweh. From his place!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.

Revised Standard Version
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the LORD arose from its place, I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake;

Young's Literal Translation
And lift me up doth a spirit, and I hear behind me a noise, a great rushing -- `Blessed [is] the honour of Jehovah from His place!' --

THE MESSAGE
Then the Spirit picked me up. Behind me I heard a great commotion—"Blessed be the Glory of God in his Sanctuary!"—the wings of the living creatures beating against each other, the whirling wheels, the rumble of a great earthquake.

Contextual Overview

¹ And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel. ² And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. ⁴ And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them. ⁵ For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel; ⁶ Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you. ⁷ But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart. ⁸ See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows. ⁹ Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people. ¹⁰ Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spirit: Ezekiel 3:14, Ezekiel 2:2, Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 11:1, Ezekiel 11:24, Ezekiel 40:1, Ezekiel 40:2, 1 Kings 18:12, 2 Kings 2:16, Acts 8:39

a voice: Acts 2:2, Revelation 1:10, Revelation 1:15

Blessed: Psalms 72:18, Psalms 72:19, Psalms 103:20, Psalms 103:21, Psalms 148:2, Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 5:11-14, Revelation 19:6

glory: Ezekiel 9:3, Ezekiel 10:4, Ezekiel 10:18, Ezekiel 10:19, Ezekiel 11:22, Ezekiel 11:23, Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 4:22

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:10 - Blessed be thou Ezekiel 8:1 - that the Ezekiel 43:5 - the spirit Micah 1:3 - cometh Matthew 4:1 - of the spirit Luke 2:13 - a multitude Ephesians 3:10 - intent Revelation 4:2 - I was Revelation 17:3 - he carried

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

Genesis 2:20
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

Genesis 2:22
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Genesis 3:20
And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

Genesis 3:24
So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

Job 31:33
If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Proverbs 19:3
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the spirit took me up,.... Not the wind, nor an angel, but the Spirit of God; who took up the prophet from the ground, from the place where he was, among the captives by the river Chebar, and had seen the glorious vision described in the first chapter; and had had his call and mission, as expressed in the second chapter, and hitherto in this; and was carried by him to another company of captives, who were at another place by the same river, as appears by comparing Ezekiel 1:1, with Ezekiel 3:15; for this was not done in a visionary way, as Kimchi thinks, but in reality; not in spirit, but in body; just as the Spirit caught away Philip from the eunuch, Acts 8:39;

and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing; of the living creatures and wheels, as is afterwards explained:

[saying], blessed [be] the glory of the Lord out of his place; either out of heaven, the place where his glory is manifested; so the Targum, out of the place of his Shechinah or majesty; or out of the temple, from between the cherubim over the mercy seat, from whence he was about to remove, Ezekiel 10:4. These words may be considered either as a doxology of the church, and people of God, ascribing glory, blessing, and praise unto him; not only on account of the perfections of his nature, but because of his works of nature, providence, and grace, and even for his righteous judgments on men. Maimonides p, by his place, understands the essence of God. Or as a lamentation for the departure of the blessed and glorious majesty of God from the temple, which seemed to be threatened; for the words may be rendered, "the blessed glory of the Lord out of his place" q; that is, it is just ready to go out of his place.

p Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 8. p. 12. q ברוך כבוד "benedictam gloriam Jehovae e loco ipsius, migrantem", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I heard behind me - The commission having been given, and the prophet transported to the place of his ministry, the chariot of the vision passes away with the proper tokens Ezekiel 1:24-25. A voice from above the firmament is now heard proclaiming the divine glory.

From his place - The place where the glory of the Lord had revealed itself in the vision. The words are to be joined to “saying:” put a comma after Lord.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:12. Then the Spirit took me up — This, as Calmet remarks, has been variously understood.

1. An impetuous wind carried him to the place where his brethren sojourned.

2. The Holy Spirit, which filled his heart, transported him in a moment to the place where the captives were.

3. Or, he was so transported with heavenly ardour in his mind, that he ran immediately off, and seemed to fly to the place where God commanded him to go.

The promptitude and impetuosity of his spirit seemed to furnish him with wings on the occasion. However this may be understood, the going to the captives was real.

A voice of a great rushing — This was the noise made by the wings of the living creatures that formed the chariot of Jehovah. See the notes on Ezekiel 1:0 and Ezekiel 10:0.

Blessed be the glory of the Lord — Probably the acclamation of the living creatures: "Let God be blessed from the throne of his glory! He deserves the praises of his creatures in all the dispensations of his mercy and justice, of his providence and grace."