On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the [a]Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and (A)the hand of the Lord was upon him there.

Then I looked, and behold, (B)a whirlwind was coming (C)out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 1:3 Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book

On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin(A) the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel(B) the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[a] There the hand of the Lord was on him.(C)

I looked, and I saw a windstorm(D) coming out of the north(E)—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 1:3 Or Chaldeans