Ezekiel 1

¹It came to passe in the thirtieth yere in the fourth moneth, and in the fift day of the moneth (as I was among the captiues by the riuer Chebar) that the heauens were opened and I sawe visions of GOD.

²In the fift day of the moneth (which was the fift yere of King Ioiachins captiuitie)

³The word of the Lord came vnto Ezekiel the Priest, the sonne of Buzi, in the lande of the Caldeans, by the riuer Chebar, where the hande of the Lord was vpon him.

⁴And I looked, and beholde, 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 amber.

⁵Also out of the middes therof came the likenesse of foure beastes, and this was their forme: they had the appearance of a man.

⁶And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings.

⁷And 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.

⁸And the handes of a man came out from vnder their wings in the foure parts of them, and they foure had their faces, and their wings.

⁹They where ioyned by their wings one to another, and when they went forth, they returned not, but euery one went streight forward.

¹⁰And the similitude of their faces was as 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 eagle.