Ezekiel 1
1:1And it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, the fifth of the month, and I was in the midst of the captivity by the river Chebar, and the heavens were opened, and I beheld visions of God.
1:2On the fifth of the month, this is the fifth year of the captivity of king Jehoiakim,
1:3and the word of the lord came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the lord came upon me.
1:4And I beheld, and behold, a wind lifting up came from the north, and a great cloud with it, and brightness round about it, and fire flashing. And in the midst of it was as the vision of molten bronze in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.
1:5And in the midst was as a likeness of four living creatures. And this is their vision -- a likeness of a man was unto them.
1:6And there were four faces to the one, and four wings to the one.
1:7And their legs were straight; and their feet feathered; and there were sparks as flashing brass; and their wings were light.
1:8And the hand of a man was beneath their wings, upon their four parts. And their faces and their wings, of the four, were being next to the other of the other.
1:9And their wings were not turned in their proceeding; each went opposite their face.
1:10And the likeness of their faces was as the face of a man, and a face of a lion from out of the right to the four; and the face of a calf from out of the left to the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.
1:11And their wings were stretching out above; to the four each, two being yoked together to one another, and two covered up upon their body.
1:12And each to the other went in front of him. Where ever the spirit was going, they went, and they did not turn.
1:13And in the midst of the living creatures was a vision as of coals of fire burning, as the appearance of lamps twisting in the midst of the living creatures. And brightness was of the fire, and from out of the fire went forth as lightning.
1:14And the living creatures were running and returning as the appearance of the lightning.
1:15And I beheld, and behold, there was one wheel upon the earth being next to the living creatures, next to the four.
1:16And the sight of the wheels and their action was as the sight of Tharsis stone. And there was one likeness to the four; and their work was as if it may be a wheel in a wheel.
1:17Upon their four parts they went; they did not turn in their going,
1:18and yet their backs and height was to them. And I beheld them, and their backs full of eyes, round about to the four.
1:19And in the going, the living creatures went, the wheels being next to them. And in the lifting away the wheels lifted away the living creatures from the earth.
1:20Where ever the cloud was there the spirit was to go; the living creatures went, and the wheels also lifted away with them; because spirit of life was in the wheels.
1:21In their going, the wheels went; and in their standing, the wheels stood; and in their lifting away from the earth, the wheels lifted away with them; for spirit of life was in the wheels.
1:22And the likeness above the head of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the vision of ice being stretched out over their wings on top.
1:23And under the firmament their wings were stretching out flapping, the other to the other; to each two covering their bodies.
1:24And I heard the sound of their wings in their going, as the sound of much water, as the sound of a worthy one in their going; a sound of the word as a sound of a camp; and in their standing their wings rested.
1:25And behold, a sound far above the firmament,
1:26of the one being above their head, as a vision of stone of sapphire with a likeness of a throne upon it; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as a form of a man from above.
1:27And I beheld as an appearance of molten bronze, as a vision of fire within it round about from the vision of the loin and up; and from the vision of the loin unto below I beheld as a vision as of fire, and its brightness round about.
1:28As the vision of a bow whenever it might be in the cloud in a day of rain, thus was the position of the brightness round about. This is the vision of the likeness of the glory of the lord. And I beheld, and I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice speaking.