¹Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

¹In zgodi se v tridesetem letu, peti dan četrtega meseca, ko sem bil med odpeljanci v sužnost pri reki Kebarju, da so se odprla nebesa, in videl sem prikazni Božje.

²In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

²Peti dan meseca, ko je bilo peto leto ujetništva kralja Jojahina,

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

³je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA izrečno do Ezekiela duhovnika, sina Buzijevega, v deželi Kaldejcev pri reki Kebarju, in tam je bila roka GOSPODOVA nad njim.

⁴And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

⁴In videl sem, in glej: vihar privrši od severa, velik oblak in med njim ogenj, neprestano švigajoč, in svetloba okoli njega; in izsredi njega se je svetilo kakor lice kovine, izsredi ognja.

⁵Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

⁵In izsredi njega se je kazala podoba štirih živih stvari, in bile so videti kakor človekova podoba.

⁶And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

⁶In vsaka je imela štiri obraze in vsaka štiri perutnice.

⁷And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

⁷Njih noge so bile ravne noge in stopala njih nog so bila kakor telečja stopala, in iskrile so se kakor likan bron.

⁸And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

⁸In pod perutnicami so imele človečje roke na štirih svojih straneh; in vse štiri so imele svoje obraze in svoje perutnice.

⁹Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

⁹Njih perutnice so bile združene druga z drugo; niso se obračale, kadar so hodile: vsaka je šla naravnost predse.

¹⁰As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

¹⁰In podoba njih obrazov je bila: spredaj človečje obličje, in na desni so imele vse štiri obraz leva in na levi obraz vola, in orlov obraz so imele zadaj vse štiri.

¹¹Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

¹¹Njih obličja pa in njih perutnice so bile zgoraj razdeljene; dve peruti vsake sta se stikali in dve sta pokrivali telo.

¹²And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

¹²In šle so vsaka naravnost predse; kamor je hotel iti duh, so šle; niso se obračale, kadar so šle.

¹³As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

¹³In podoba četverih živih stvari: videti jih je bilo kakor živo žerjavico, kakor plamenice. Ogenj je švigal semtertja med četverimi živimi stvarmi, in ogenj je bil presvetel in iz ognja so švigali bliski.

¹⁴And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

¹⁴In tiste žive stvari so letale semtertja kakor blisk.

¹⁵Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

¹⁵Ko sem pa gledal tiste žive stvari, glej: kolo na zemlji poleg živih stvari, ob njih štirih sprednjih straneh.

¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

¹⁶Kolesa in njih delo je bilo videti kakor lice hrizolita, in vsa štiri so imela enako podobo, in njih podoba in njih delo je bilo, kakor da bi bilo kolo v kolesu.

¹⁷When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

¹⁷Kadar so šla, so šla na svoje štiri strani; niso se obračala, ko so šla.

¹⁸As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

¹⁸Njih platišča so bila visoka in strašna, in platišča so bila polna oči kroginkrog na vseh štirih kolesih.

¹⁹And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

¹⁹In ko so žive stvari hodile, so hodila kolesa zraven njih, in ko so se žive stvari vzdignile od zemlje, so se vzdignila kolesa.

²⁰Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

²⁰Kamorkoli je bilo iti duhu, so šle, tja, kamor je hotel iti duh, in kolesa so se vzdignila vzporedno ž njimi, zakaj duh žive stvari je bil v kolesih.

²¹When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

²¹Kadar so šle, so šla tudi ona, in kadar so stale, so stala ona, kadar so se pa vzdignile nad zemljo, so se vzdignila kolesa vzporedno ž njimi, zakaj duh žive stvari je bil v njih.

²²And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

²²In nad glavami živih stvari se je razpenjalo liki nebesno raztežje, katerega lice je bilo kakor čudovitega kristala, razprostrto zgoraj nad njih glavami.

²³And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

²³In pod raztežjem so bile njih perutnice naravnost urejene druga proti drugi; vsaka je imela dve ob tej strani in dve ob oni strani, ki sta pokrivali nje život.

²⁴And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

²⁴In ko so šle, sem slišal šum njih perutnic kakor šumenje velikih vodá, kakor glas Vsemogočnega, šum vrenja kakor hrup vojske. Ko so stale, so pobešale perutnice.

²⁵And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

²⁵In bilo je grmenje zgoraj nad raztežjem, ki se je razpenjalo nad njih glavami. Ko so stale, so pobešale perutnice.

²⁶And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

²⁶In vrhu raztežja, ki se je razpenjalo nad njih glavami, je bila podoba prestola, ki je bil videti kakor kamen safir; in na podobi prestola je bila podoba liki človekova, zgoraj na njem.

²⁷And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

²⁷In videl sem kakor lice svetle kovine, ki se je zdelo kakor ogenj znotraj njega kroginkrog; od njegovega ledja gori in od njegovega ledja doli sem videl kakor podobo ognja, in svetloba je bila okoli njega.Kakor se vidi mavrica, ki je na oblakih v dan dežja, taka se je videla svetloba okoli. To je bila prikazen podobe slave GOSPODOVE. In ko sem to videl, padem na obraz in začujem glas govorečega.

²⁸As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

²⁸Kakor se vidi mavrica, ki je na oblakih v dan dežja, taka se je videla svetloba okoli. To je bila prikazen podobe slave GOSPODOVE. In ko sem to videl, padem na obraz in začujem glas govorečega.