1Ezekiel 1

1Now 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 Kebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.Select Ezekiel 1:1

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

3The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Kebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.Select Ezekiel 1:3

4And 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 from the midst of it as the color of amber, from the midst of the fire.Select Ezekiel 1:4

5Also from the midst of it [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.Select Ezekiel 1:5

6And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.Select Ezekiel 1:6

7And 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 color of burnished brass.Select Ezekiel 1:7

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

9Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.Select Ezekiel 1:9

10As 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.Select Ezekiel 1:10

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

12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they went.Select Ezekiel 1:12

13As 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.Select Ezekiel 1:13

14And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.Select Ezekiel 1:14

15Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.Select Ezekiel 1:15

16The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like the color 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.Select Ezekiel 1:16

17When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they returned not when they went.Select Ezekiel 1:17

18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes around them four.Select Ezekiel 1:18

19And 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.Select Ezekiel 1:19

20Whithersoever 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.Select Ezekiel 1:20

21When 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.Select Ezekiel 1:21

22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the color of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.Select Ezekiel 1:22

23And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one towards the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.Select Ezekiel 1:23

24And 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 a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.Select Ezekiel 1:24

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

26And 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.Select Ezekiel 1:26

27And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire around 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 on all sides.Select Ezekiel 1:27

28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness around. 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 speaking.Select Ezekiel 1:28