Книга пророка Иезекииля, Chapters 1-3, verses 4-15: Библия онлайн, New International Version == БИБЛИЯ-ЦЕНТР

Ezekiel, Chapter 1, verses 4-28

⁴ I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,

⁵ and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man,

⁶ but each of them had four faces and four wings.

⁷ Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.

⁸ Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings,

⁹ and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.

¹⁰ Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.

¹¹ Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

¹² Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

¹³ The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

¹⁴ The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

¹⁵ As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

¹⁶ This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

¹⁷ As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about⁴ as the creatures went.

¹⁸ Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

¹⁹ When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

²⁰ Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

²¹ When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

²² Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome.

²³ Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body.

²⁴ When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty,⁵ like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

²⁵ Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.

²⁶ Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire,⁶ and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

²⁷ I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.

²⁸ Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD . When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Ezekiel, Chapter 2

¹ He said to me, "Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you."

² As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.

³ He said: "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their fathers have been in revolt against me to this very day.

⁴ The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says.'

⁵ And whether they listen or fail to listen-for they are a rebellious house-they will know that a prophet has been among them.

⁶ And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house.

⁷ You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.

⁸ But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you."

⁹ Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,

¹⁰ which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

Ezekiel, Chapter 3, verses 1-15

¹ And he said to me, "Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the house of Israel."

² So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

³ Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

⁴ He then said to me: "Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

⁵ You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel-

⁶ not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

⁷ But the house of Israel is not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hardened and obstinate.

⁸ But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.

⁹ I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house."

¹⁰ And he said to me, "Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.

¹¹ Go now to your countrymen in exile and speak to them. Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says,' whether they listen or fail to listen."

¹² Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound-May the glory of the LORD be praised in his dwelling place!-

¹³ the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound.

¹⁴ The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

¹⁵ I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days-overwhelmed.


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