Yechezkel, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month],
in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the
river Kevar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
{1:2} In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of
king Yehoiakim's captivity, {1:3} the word of the LORD came expressly
to Yechezkel the [1>]Kohen[<1], the son of Buzi, in the land of the
Kasdim by the river Kevar; 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 round about it,
and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst
of the fire. {1:5} Out of the midst of it 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 everyone 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 they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:
{1:9} their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when
they went; they went everyone straight forward. {1:10} As for the
likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had
the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an
ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. {1:11}
Their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of
everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
{1:12} They went everyone 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 [2>]eretz[<2]
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 bareket: and
they four 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 they four had their rims
full of eyes round about. {1:19} When the living creatures went, the
wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up
from the [3>]eretz[<3], 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
[4>]eretz[<4], 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:
everyone 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 [5>]Shaddai[<5], a noise of tumult like the noise of a
host: 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
sappir 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 round about, from the
appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his
loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there
was brightness round about him. {1:28} 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. 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 Yisra'el, to nations
that are rebellious, which 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 do sent you to them; and
you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD. {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 you 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 Yisra'el. {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 did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey
for sweetness. {3:4} He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the
house of Yisra'el, and speak with 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 Yisra'el; {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 Yisra'el will not listen to you; for they will not listen to
me: for all the house of Yisra'el are of hard forehead and of a stiff
heart. {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, get you 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 Kevar, 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 Yisra'el: therefore hear the word at 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 Kevar; 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 within 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 cleave 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] {1:3} priest
[2] {1:15} earth
[3] {1:19} earth
[4] {1:21} earth
[5] {1:24} the Almighty
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