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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Ezekiel 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../lamentations/5.htm" title="Lamentations 5">◄</a> Ezekiel 1 <a href="../ezekiel/2.htm" title="Ezekiel 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h2 class="ms">EZEKIEL'S FIRST VISION OF GOD (1.1—7.27)</h2><h3 class="s">God's Throne</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.1" class="v26_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> On the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I, Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, was living with the Jewish exiles by the Chebar River in Babylonia. The sky opened, and I saw a vision of God. ( </span><span class="v26_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.2" class="v26_1_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> It was the fifth year since King Jehoiachin had been taken into exile.) </span><span class="v26_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.3" class="v26_1_3">3</span>There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I heard the <span class="nd">Lord</span> speak to me, and I felt his power.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.4" class="v26_1_4">4</span>I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the north. Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud, and the sky around it was glowing. Where the lightning was flashing, something shone like bronze. </span><span class="v26_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.5" class="v26_1_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> At the center of the storm I saw what looked like four living creatures in human form, </span><span class="v26_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.6" class="v26_1_6">6</span>but each of them had four faces and four wings. </span><span class="v26_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.7" class="v26_1_7">7</span>Their legs were straight, and they had hoofs like those of a bull. They shone like polished bronze. </span><span class="v26_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.8" class="v26_1_8">8</span>In addition to their four faces and four wings, they each had four human hands, one under each wing. </span><span class="v26_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.9" class="v26_1_9">9</span>Two wings of each creature were spread out so that the creatures formed a square, with their wing tips touching. When they moved, they moved as a group without turning their bodies.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.10" class="v26_1_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Each living creature had four different faces: a human face in front, a lion's face at the right, a bull's face at the left, and an eagle's face at the back. </span><span class="v26_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.11" class="v26_1_11">11</span>Two wings<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of each creature were raised so that they touched the tips of the wings of the creatures next to it, and their other two wings were folded against their bodies. </span><span class="v26_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.12" class="v26_1_12">12</span>Each creature faced all four directions, and so the group could go wherever they wished, without having to turn.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.13" class="v26_1_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Among<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the creatures there was something that looked like a blazing torch, constantly moving. The fire would blaze up and shoot out flashes of lightning. </span><span class="v26_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.14" class="v26_1_14">14</span>The creatures themselves darted back and forth with the speed of lightning.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.15" class="v26_1_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> As I was looking at the four creatures I saw four wheels touching the ground, one beside each of them.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.16" class="v26_1_16">16</span>All four wheels were alike; each one shone like a precious stone, and each had another wheel intersecting it at right angles, </span><span class="v26_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.17" class="v26_1_17">17</span>so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions. </span><span class="v26_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.18" class="v26_1_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.18!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.19" class="v26_1_19">19</span>Whenever the creatures moved, the wheels moved with them, and if the creatures rose up from the earth, so did the wheels. </span><span class="v26_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.20" class="v26_1_20">20</span>The creatures went wherever they wished, and the wheels did exactly what the creatures did, because the creatures controlled them. </span><span class="v26_1_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.21" class="v26_1_21">21</span>So every time the creatures moved or stopped or rose in the air, the wheels did exactly the same.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.22" class="v26_1_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Above the heads of the creatures there was something that looked like a dome made of dazzling crystal. </span><span class="v26_1_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.23" class="v26_1_23">23</span>There under the dome stood the creatures, each stretching out two wings toward the ones next to it and covering its body with the other two wings. </span><span class="v26_1_24"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.24" class="v26_1_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I heard the noise their wings made in flight; it sounded like the roar of the sea, like the noise of a huge army, like the voice of Almighty God. When they stopped flying, they folded their wings, </span><span class="v26_1_25"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.25" class="v26_1_25">25</span>but there was still a sound coming from above the dome over their heads.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_26"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.26" class="v26_1_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Above the dome there was something that looked like a throne made of sapphire, and sitting on the throne was a figure that looked like a human being. </span><span class="v26_1_27"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.27" class="v26_1_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.1.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The figure seemed to be shining like bronze in the middle of a fire. It shone all over with a bright light </span><span class="v26_1_28"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.1.28" class="v26_1_28">28</span>that had in it all the colors of the rainbow. This was the dazzling light which shows the presence of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h3 class="s">God Calls Ezekiel to Be a Prophet</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_1_28">When I saw this, I fell face downward on the ground. Then I heard a voice</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.1: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">thirtieth year: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">It is not known to what year this refers.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.11: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Two wings; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Their faces, their wings.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.13: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Among; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">And the likeness of.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.15: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">them; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">their faces.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.18: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 18 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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