Ezekiel 1:3-5

American Standard Version

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

⁴ And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire ^[a]infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof ^[b]as it were glowing ^[c]metal, out of the midst of the fire. ⁵ And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man;