Jubilee2000 - Ezekiel - 1

1:1  Now it came to pass at thirty years, 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.

1:2  In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

1:3  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 there the hand of the LORD came upon him.

1:4  And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, and [a] great cloud, and a fire enfolding 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.

1:5  Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance: they had the likeness of man.

1:6  And each one had four faces, and four wings.

1:7  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 highly burnished brass.

1:8  And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and their faces and their wings on [all] four sides.

1:9  With their wings they joined one to another; they did not return when they went; they went each one straight in the direction they were facing.

1:10  And the likeness of their faces was human faces; and lion faces, on the right side; and they four had ox faces on the left side; likewise they four had eagle faces.

1:11  Thus [were] their faces; and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of each one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

1:12  And they went each one straight forward in the direction they were facing: wherever the Spirit directed them to go, they went; [and] they did not return when they went.

1:13  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire [and] like the appearance of [lit] torches; the [fire] went up and down among the living creatures and the brightness of the fire; and out of the fire went forth lightning.

1:14  And the living creatures ran and turned as the appearance of lightnings.

1:15  Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold a wheel upon the earth with its four rims by the living creatures.

1:16  The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a [stone of] Tarsis [or beryl]; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their workmanship [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

1:17  When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they did not return when they went.

1:18  And their ribs were high and dreadful, and full of eyes round about them in all four.

1:19  And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

1:20  Wherever the spirit wished to go, they went; wherever the spirit directed them, the wheels also rose up after them: for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in the wheels.

1:21  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 after them: for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in the wheels.

1:22  And over the heads of each living creature there appeared a heaven like a marvellous crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

1:23  And under the heaven their wings [were] straight one toward the other: each one had two, and another two which covered their bodies.

1:24  And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as the voice of the Almighty, when they went; the voice of the word, as the voice of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

1:25  And there was heard a voice from the heaven that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings.

1:26  And above the heaven that [was] over their heads [was] the figure of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the figure of the throne [was] a likeness as the appearance of a man seated upon it.

1:27  And I saw something that looked like the colour of amber, that appeared to have fire round about within it, which could be seen from his loins upward; and from his loins downward, I saw what looked like fire, and it had brightness round about

1:28  that looked like the bow of heaven that is in the clouds in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And I saw it and fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.: