Ezekiel 1:1-14

The Prophet's Vision of the Divine Glory

1¹ Now 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 [1] visions of God . ² (On the fifth of the month [2]in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile , ³ the 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 As 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 Within it there were figures resembling four living beings . And this was their appearance : they had human form . ⁶ Each of them had four faces and four wings . ⁷ Their legs were straight and [3]their feet were like a calf's hoof e , and they gleamed like burnished bronze . ⁸ Under their wings on their four sides were human hands . As for the faces and wings of the four of them, ⁹ their wings touched one another ; their faces did not turn when they moved , each went straight e e forward . ¹⁰ As for the form of their faces , each had the face of a man ; [4]all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left , and [4]all four had the face of an eagle . ¹¹ Such were their faces . Their wings were spread out above e ; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies . ¹² And each went straight e e forward ; wherever e e the spirit was about to go , they would go , without turning as they went . ¹³ [6]In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire , [7]like torches darting back and forth among the living beings . The fire was bright , and lightning was [8]flashing from the fire . ¹⁴ And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning .