1. Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2. In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

3. The LORD' s word came to EZEKIEL the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and The LORD's hand was there on him.

4. I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.

5. Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.

6. Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

7. Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

8. They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:

9. Their wings were joined to one another. They didn't turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.

10. As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

11. Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

12. Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn't turn when they went.

13. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.

14. The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15. Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

16. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

17. When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn't turn when they went.

18. As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

19. When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. Then the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20. Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

21. When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22. Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.

23. Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.

24. When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

25. There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.

26. Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

27. I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

28. As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.This was the appearance of the likeness of The LORD's glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

1. In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord God's hand fell on me there.

2. Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

3. He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

4. Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

5. Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north."So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

6. He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations."

7. He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

8. Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall."When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.

9. He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here."

10. So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

11. Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

12. Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, 'The LORD doesn't see us. the LORD has forsaken the land.'"

13. He said also to me, "You will again see more of the great abominations which they do."

14. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of The LORD's house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.

15. Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these."

16. He brought me into the inner court of The LORD's house; and I saw at the door of The LORD's temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward The LORD's temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

17. Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

18. Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won't spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them."

1. Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2. He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, "Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city."He went in as I watched.

3. Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4. The LORD's glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of The LORD's glory.

5. The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6. It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7. The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8. The form of a man's hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings.

9. I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

10. As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

11. When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn't turn as they went.

12. Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.

13. As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "the whirling wheels".

14. Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.

15. The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

16. When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17. When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18. The LORD's glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19. The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of The LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

21. Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22. As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.