King James VersionEzekiel1

Ezekiel

1 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. 2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's cap­tiv­i­ty, 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. 4 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. 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. 12 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. 14 And the liv­ing crea­tures ran and re­turned as the ap­pear­ance of a flash of light­ning. 15 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. 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. 24 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. 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.