Ezekiel 1:1-3

New Century Version

Ezekiel’s Vision of Living Creatures

1 It was the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month of our captivity. I was by the Kebar River among the people who had been carried away as captives. The sky opened, and I saw visions of God.

² It was the fifth day of the month of the fifth year that King Jehoiachin had been a prisoner. ³ The Lord spoke his word to Ezekiel son of Buzi in the land of the Babylonians by the Kebar River. There he felt the power of the Lord.