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The Amplified Version
I was in the Spirit - wrapped in His power - on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a great voice like the calling of a war trumpet, Saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. Write promptly what you see (your vision) in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia - to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philidelphia and to Laodicea.
Then I turned to see (whose was) the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning, I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands (One) like the Son of Man, clothed with a robe which reached to His feet and with a girdle of gold about His breast. (Dan.7:13; 10:5) His head and His hair were white like white wool, (as white) as snow, and HIs eyes (flashed) like a flame of fire. (Dan.7:9)
His feet glowed like (bright) burnished bronze as it is refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters (Dan.10:6)
In His right hand He held seven stars, and from His mouth there came forth a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was like the sun shining in full power at midday. (Exod. 34:29)
The Message Bible
I saw a gold menorah
with seven branches, and in the center, the Son of Man,
in a robe and gold breastplate,
hair a blizzard of white,
eyes pouring forth fire-blaze,
both feet furnace-fire bronze,
His voice a cataract,
right hand holding the Seven Stars,
His mouth a sharp-biting sword,
His face a perigee sun.
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