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Chapter 1 |
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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. |
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2 | In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth
year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, |
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3 | 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. |
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| 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | And every one had four faces, and every one had four
wings. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | And they had the hands of a man under
their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their
wings. |
| 9 | 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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14 | And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
flash of lightning. |
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Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the
living creatures, with his four faces. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
