2. On the fifth of the month – it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin –
3. the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the River Kebar in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the Lord was on him.
4. I looked, and I saw a violent storm coming out of the north – an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The centre of the fire looked like glowing metal,
5. and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,
6. but each of them had four faces and four wings.
7. Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.
8. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings,
9. and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.