سِفْرُ حِزْقِيَال

(48) إصحاح

Ezekiel

 

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الأَوَّلُ

 

Chapter
1

1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the
heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s
captivity,

3
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,
in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was
there upon him.

4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud,
and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the
midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And
this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

6
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

7
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole
of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

8
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they
four had their faces and their wings.

9
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they
went every one straight forward.

10
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the
face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the
left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

11
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of
every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

12
And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they
went; and they turned not when they went.

13
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning
coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the
living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth
lightning.

14
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
lightning.

15
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the
living creatures, with his four faces.

16
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a
beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was
as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they
went.

18
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings
were full of eyes round about them four.

19
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the
living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go;
and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.

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 over against them: for
the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the
colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

23
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other:
every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which
covered on that side, their bodies.

24
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great
waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an
host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

25
And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they
stood, and had let down their wings.

26
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne,
as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was
the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

27
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within
it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of
his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness round about.

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. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and
I heard a voice of one that spake.