Ezekiel 1:1-3:15 1 In the thirtieth year,
on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles
at the Kebar River,
the heavens opened
and I saw a divine vision.
2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –
3 the word of the
Lord came to the priest Ezekiel
the son of Buzi,
at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.
The hand
of the
Lord came on him there).
4 As I watched, I noticed
a windstorm
coming from the north – an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing,
such that bright light
rimmed it and came from
it like glowing amber
from the middle of a fire.
5 In the fire
were what looked like
four living beings.
In their appearance they had human form,
6 but each had four faces and four wings.
7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed
like polished bronze.
8 They had human hands
under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.
10 Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle.
11 Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.
12 Each moved straight ahead
– wherever the spirit
would go, they would go, without turning as they went.
13 In the middle
of the living beings was something like
burning coals of fire
or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.
14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.
15 Then I looked,
and I saw one wheel
on the ground
beside each of the four beings.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction
was like gleaming jasper,
and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.
17 When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
18 Their rims were high and awesome,
and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.
19 When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.
20 Wherever the spirit
would go, they would go,
and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit
of the living being was in the wheel.
21 When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped.
When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.
22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform,
glittering awesomely like ice,
stretched out over their heads.
23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering
its body.
24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings – it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Almighty,
or the tumult
of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
25 Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still.
26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
27 I saw an amber glow
like a fire enclosed all around
from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,
28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain.
This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the
Lord. When I saw
it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.
1 He said to me, “Son of man,
stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”
2 As he spoke to me,
a wind
came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.
3 He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house
of Israel, to rebellious nations
who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted
against me to this very day.
4 The people
to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted,
and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign
Lord says.’
5 And as for them,
whether they listen
or not – for they are a rebellious
house
– they will know that a prophet has been among them.
6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words – even though briers
and thorns
surround you and you live among scorpions – do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you,
for they are a rebellious house!
7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
9 Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.
10 He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front
and back;
written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.
1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you
– eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.
3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it,
and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech
and difficult language,
but
to the house of Israel –
6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand
– surely if
I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you,
because they are not willing to listen to me,
for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
8 “I have made your face adamant
to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond!
Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you,
for they are a rebellious house.”
10 And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.
11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen,
and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign
Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
12 Then a wind lifted me up
and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the
Lord rose from its place,
13 and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.
14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly,
my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the
Lord rested powerfully
on me.
15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib,
who lived by the Kebar River.
I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.
Context (NET) Hebrews 3:1-19 1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,
partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,
2 who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s
house.
3 For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!
4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
5 Now Moses was
faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.
6 But Christ
is faithful as a son over God’s
house. We are of his house,
if in fact we hold firmly
to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“
Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 8 “
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. 9 “
There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years. 10 “
Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘
Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’
11 “
As I swore in my anger, ‘
They will never enter my rest!’”
12 See to it,
brothers and sisters,
that none of you has
an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes
the living God.
13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence
firm until the end.
15 As it says,
“
Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?
17 And against whom was God
provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned,
whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?
19 So
we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
Context (NET) Psalm 104:1-23 1 Praise the
Lord, O my soul! O
Lord my God, you are magnificent.
You are robed in splendor and majesty.
2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds.
He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.
4 He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant.
5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.
6 The watery deep covered it
like a garment; the waters reached
above the mountains.
7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –
8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down – to the place you appointed for them.
9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
10 He turns springs into streams;
they flow between the mountains.
11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.
13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace;
the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.
14 He provides grass
for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate,
so they can produce food from the ground,
15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good,
and so they can have oil to make their faces shine,
as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
16 The trees of the
Lord receive all the rain they need,
the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,
17 where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.
18 The wild goats live in the high mountains;
the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.
19 He made the moon to mark the months,
and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.
20 You make it dark and night comes,
during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
21 The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.
22 When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep
in their dens.
23 Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.
Context (NET) Proverbs 26:24-26 24 The one who hates others disguises
it with his lips, but he stores up
deceit within him.
25 When
he speaks graciously,
do not believe him,
for there are seven
abominations
within him.
26 Though his
hatred may be concealed
by deceit, his evil will be uncovered
in the assembly.
Context (NET)
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