The Book of Ezekiel (WEB)
Ezekiel
1:1Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
1:2In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 1:3the word
of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by
the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. 1:4I looked, and, behold, a stormy
wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it,
and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. 1:5Out of the midst
of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of
a man. 1:6Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings. 1:7Their feet were straight
feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished
brass. 1:8They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their
faces and their wings thus: 1:9their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they
went; they went everyone straight forward. 1:10As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face
of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox
on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. 1:11Their faces and their wings were
separate above; two wings of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
1:12They went everyone straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn
when they went. 1:13As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning
coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 1:14The living creatures ran and
returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 1:15Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one
wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. 1:16The appearance of
the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 1:17When they went, they went in their four
directions: they didn't turn when they went. 1:18As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and
they four had their rims full of eyes round about. 1:19When the living creatures went, the wheels
went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up. 1:20Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels
were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 1:21When those
went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
1:22Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome
crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. 1:23Under the expanse were their wings
straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two which covered on this side, and every one
had two which covered on that side, their bodies. 1:24When they went, I heard the noise of their
wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the
noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 1:25There was a voice above the
expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings. 1:26Above the
expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire
stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. 1:27I
saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance
of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the
appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. 1:28As the appearance of the bow that
is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was
the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spoke.
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