Now it
came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river of Chebar, that
the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God.
02 In the fifth day of the month, which was the
fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
03 The word of the Lord came expressly unto
Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land
of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the
hand of the Lord was there upon him.
04 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came
out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire
infolding itself, and a brightness was about it,
and out of the midst thereof as the colour of
amber, out of the midst of the fire.
05 Also out of the midst thereof came the
likeness of four living creatures. And this was
their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
06 And every one had four faces, and every one
had four wings.
07 And their feet were straight feet; and the
sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot: and they sparkled like the colour of
burnished brass.
08 And they had the hands of a man under their
wings on their four sides; and they four had
their faces and their wings.
09 Their wings were joined one to another; they
turned not when they went; they went every one
straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four
had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on
the right side: and they four had the face of an
ox on the left side; they four also had the face
of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were
stretched upward; two wings of every one were
joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward:
whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they
turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures,
their appearance was like burning coals of fire,
and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and
down among the living creatures; and the fire was
bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as
the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold
one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures,
with his four faces.
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16 The appearance of the wheels and their work
was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they
four had one likeness: and their appearance and
their work was as it were a wheel in the middle
of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four
sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that
they were dreadful; and their rings were full of
eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels
went by them: and when the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted
up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went,
thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels
were lifted up over against them: for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those
stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up
from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over
against them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the
heads of the living creature was as the colour of
the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their
heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings
straight, the one toward the other: every one had
two, which covered on this side, and every one
had two, which covered on that side, their
bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings, like the noise of great waters, as the
voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as
the noise of an host: when they stood, they let
down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that
was over their heads, when they stood, and had
let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their
heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the
likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire round about within it, from
the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness round about.
28 As 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 the
Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and
I heard a voice of one that spake.
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