CHAP. I.1 The time wherein Ezekiel prophecied and in what place. 3 His
kinred. 5 The vision of the foure beastes. 26 The vision of
the throne.
1It came to passe in the note thirtieth
yere in the fourth moneth, and in
the fift day of the moneth (as I
was among the captiues by the
riuer note Chebar) that the heauens
were opened and I sawe visions
of note GOD.
2 In the fift day of the moneth (which was the
fift yere of King Ioiachins captiuitie)
3 The word of the Lorde came vnto Ezekiel
the Priest, the sonne of Buzi, in the lande of the
Caldeans, by the riuer Chebar, where the note hande
of the Lord was vpon him.
4 And I looked, and beholde, note a whirlewinde
came out of the North, a great cloude and a fire
wrapped about it, and a brightnesse was about it,
and in the middes thereof, to wit, in the middes of
the fire came out as the likenesse of note amber.
5 Also out of the middes therof came the likenesse
of foure beastes, note and this was their forme:
they had the appearance of a man.
6 And euery one had foure faces, and euery
one had foure wings.
7 And their feete were streight feete, and the
sole of their feete was like the sole of a calues
foote, and they sparkled like the appearance of
bright brasse.
8 And the handes of a man came out from vnder
their wings in the foure parts of them, & they
foure had their faces, and their wings.
9 They where note ioyned by their wings one to
another, and when they went forth, they returned
not, but euery one went streight forward.
10 And the similitude of their faces was as
note the face of a man: and they foure had the face of
a lyon on the right side, and they foure had the
face of a bullocke on the left side: they foure also
had the face of an egle.
11 Thus were their faces: but their wings were
spred out aboue: two wings of euery one were ioined
one to another, & two couered their bodies.
12 And euery one went streight forward: they
went whither their note spirit led them, and they returned
not when they went forth.
13 The similitude also of the beasts, and their
appearance was like burning coles of fire, & like
the appearance of lampes: for the fire ran among
the beastes, and the fire gaue a glister, and out of
the fire there went lightning.
14 And the beastes ranne, and note returned like
vnto lightning.
15 ¶2; Nowe as I behelde the beastes, beholde,
a wheele appeared vpon the earth by the beastes,
hauing foure faces.
16 The facion of the wheeles and their worke
was like vnto a note chrysolite: and they foure had
one forme, and their facion, and their worke was
as one wheele in another wheele.
17 Wh&ebar; they went, they went vp&obar; their foure
sides, and they returned not when they went.
18 They had also note rings, and height, and were
fearefull to beholde, and their rings were full of
eyes, round about them foure.
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The vision of the throne.
19 And when the beastes went, the wheeles
went with them: and when the beasts were lift vp
from the earth, the wheeles were lift vp.
20 Whither the spirit led them, they went, &
thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade them,
and the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for
the spirit of the beastes was in the wheeles.
21 When the beastes went, they went, & when
they stoode, they stoode, and when they were lifted
vp from the earth, the wheeles were lifted vp
besides them: for the spirite of the beastes was in
the wheeles.
22 And the similitude of the firmament vpon
the heads of the beasts was wonderfull, like vnto
chrystall, spred ouer their heads aboue.
23 And vnder the firmament were their wings
streight, the one toward the other: every one had
two, which couered th&ebar;, and euery one had two,
which couered their bodies.
The vision of the throne.
24 And when they went foorth, I heard the
noyse of their note wings, like the noyse of great waters,
and as the voyce of the Almightie, euen the
voyce of speach, as the noyse of an host: and when
they stood, they note let downe their wings.
25 And there was a voyce fr&obar; the firmament,
that was ouer their heads, when they stoode, and
had let downe their wings.
26 And aboue the firmament that was ouer
their heads, was the facion of a throne like vnto
a saphir stone, and vpon the similitude of the
throne was by appearance, as the similitude of a
man aboue vpon it.
27 And I sawe as the appearance of amber,
and as the similitude of fire note round about within
it to looke to, euen from his loynes vpwarde:
and to looke to, euen from his loynes downewarde,
I sawe as a likenesse of fire, and brightnesse
round about it.
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Stiffe hearted.
28 As the likenesse of the bowe, that is in the
cloude in the day of raine, so was the appearance
of the light round about.
29 This was the appearance of the similitude
of the glorie of the Lord: and when I sawe it,
I fell note vpon my face, and I heard a voyce of one
that spake.
