Ezekiel 1:1-4

New International Version - UK

Ezekiel’s inaugural vision

1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

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.^[a] 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,