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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in
the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river
Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
[1>]God[<1]. {1:2} In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year
of king Jehoiachin's captivity, {1:3} the word of [2>]the LORD[<2]
came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of
the Kasdim by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there on
him. {1:4} 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 its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the
fire. {1:5} Out of its midst came the likeness of four living
creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
{1:6} Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
{1:7} Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was
like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished
brass. {1:8} They had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:
{1:9} their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when
they went; each one went straight forward. {1:10} As for the likeness
of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had
the face of a lion on the right side; and 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. {1:11} Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out
above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their
bodies. {1:12} Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to
go, they went; they didn't turn when they went. {1:13} 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; and the fire was bright, and out of
the fire went forth lightning. {1:14} The living creatures ran and
returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. {1:15} Now as I
saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the
living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. {1:16} The
appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four
of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as
it were a wheel within a wheel. {1:17} When they went, they went in
their four directions: they didn't turn when they went. {1:18} As for
their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had
their rims full of eyes all around. {1:19} When the living creatures
went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. {1:20} Wherever
the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the
wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels. {1:21} 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 beside them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels. {1:22} Over the head of the living
creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome
crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. {1:23}
Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other:
each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two
which covered on that side, their bodies. {1:24} 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. {1:25} There was a
voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood,
they let down their wings. {1:26} Above the expanse that was over
their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a
[3>]sapphire[<3] stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a
likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. {1:27} 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. {1:28} 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 glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spoke.
{2:1} He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will
speak with you. {2:2} The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me,
and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. {2:3} He said
to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation
of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have
transgressed against me even to this very day. {2:4} The children are
impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall
tell them, Thus says the [4>]Lord[<4] the LORD. {2:5} They, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a
rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among
them. {2:6} You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be
afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you
do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be
dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. {2:7} You
shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear; for they are most rebellious. {2:8} But you, son of man,
hear what I tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house:
open your mouth, and eat that which I give you. {2:9} When I looked,
behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book
was therein; {2:10} He spread it before me: and it was written within
and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and woe.
{3:1} He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this
scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. {3:2} So I opened my
mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. {3:3} He said to me, Son of
man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll
that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my
mouth. {3:4} He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and
speak my words to them. {3:5} For you are not sent to a people of a
strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
{3:6} not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language,
whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them,
they would listen to you. {3:7} But the house of Israel will not
listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of
Israel [5>]are obstinate[<5] and hard-hearted. {3:8} Behold, I have
made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard
against their foreheads. {3:9} As an adamant harder than flint have I
made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at
their looks, though they are a rebellious house. {3:10} Moreover he
said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive
in your heart, and hear with your ears. {3:11} Go to them of the
captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear. {3:12} Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind
me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the
LORD from his place. {3:13} I heard the noise of the wings of the
living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the
wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. {3:14} So the
Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in
the heat of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.
{3:15} Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by
the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed
among them seven days. {3:16} It happened at the end of seven days,
that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {3:17} Son of man, I
have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the
word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. {3:18} When I tell
the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor
speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the
same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at your hand. {3:19} Yet if you warn the wicked, and he
doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. {3:20} Again,
when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die:
because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and
his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his
blood will I require at your hand. {3:21} Nevertheless if you warn the
righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he
shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered
your soul. {3:22} The hand of the LORD was there on me; and he said to
me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
{3:23} Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the
glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell on my face. {3:24} Then the Spirit entered into me,
and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut
yourself inside your house. {3:25} But you, son of man, behold, they
shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall
not go out among them: {3:26} and I will make your tongue stick to the
roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a
reprover; for they are a rebellious house. {3:27} But when I speak
with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says
the Lord GOD: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him
forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[2] {1:3} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[3] {1:26} or, lapis lazuli
[4] {2:4} The word translated "Lord" (mixed case) is "Adonai."
[5] {3:7} Literally, have a hard forehead
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