All four had both faces and wings, with the wings touching one another. On all four sides under their wings they had human hands. Their legs were as sturdy and straight as columns, but their feet were hoofed like those of a calf and sparkled from the fire like burnished bronze. Each had the form of a human being, but each also had four faces and four wings. Within the fire were what looked like four creatures vibrant with life. God’s hand came upon him that day.)Ĥ-9 I looked: I saw an immense dust storm come from the north, an immense cloud with lightning flashing from it, a huge ball of fire glowing like bronze. On the fifth day of the fourth month, the sky opened up and I saw visions of God.Ģ-3 (It was the fifth day of the month in the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin that God’s Word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, on the banks of the Kebar River in the country of Babylon. 1 When I was thirty years of age, I was living with the exiles on the Kebar River.
