Ezekiel 1:24

The sound of the wings of the living creatures when in flight was as the noise of many waters, as the thunder, or, as the roar of a host.

voice of the Almighty that is, the thunder, Psalms 29:3; Job 37:4. The comparison to waters occurs again, ch. Ezekiel 43:2, and that to the voice of the Almighty, ch. Ezekiel 10:5 (God Almighty). The name Almighty (Heb. shaddai, of uncertain derivation) occurs alone chiefly in poetical pieces, e.g. about thirty times in Job, a few times in prophecy (Isaiah 13:6 = Joel 1:15; Ezekiel 1:24) and in the idyl of Ruth (Ezekiel 1:20-21); but in prose has the word "God" (El) prefixed to it (Genesis 17:1).

the voice of speech Rather: noise of tumult, as Jeremiah 11:16, where the word appears to occur again. The rendering "speech," though that of the ancient versions, assumes a different pronunciation. As to noise of a "host" cf. Isaiah 17:12; Joel 2:5. LXX. omits all the comparisons except the first, as in ch. Ezekiel 43:2, unless Jerome is to be followed, who vindicates here for LXX. what is usually ascribed to Theodotion.