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.

¹Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .

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

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

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

³the word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

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.

⁴I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

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

⁵Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

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

⁶Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

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

⁷Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

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

⁸They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:

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

⁹their wings were joined one to another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

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.

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

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

¹¹Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

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

¹²Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went.

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.

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

¹⁴In tiste žive stvari so letale semtertja kakor blisk.

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

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

¹⁵Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

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.

¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

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

¹⁷When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn when they went.

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

¹⁸As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

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

¹⁹When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

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.

²⁰Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside 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.

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 beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

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

²²Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.

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.

²³Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

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.

²⁴When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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

²⁵There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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.

²⁶Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire or, lapis lazuli stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

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.

²⁷I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

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.

²⁸As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.