| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.) |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Each of them had four faces and four wings. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking. |
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