Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.

The Lord repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.

The Lord repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

The Lord rewarded me for my godly deeds; he took notice of my blameless behavior.

I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

(6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

Is there anything about which someone can say, “Look at this! It is new!”? It was already done long ago, before our time.

Next, I decided to consider wisdom, as well as foolish behavior and ideas. For what more can the king’s successor do than what the king has already done?

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

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.

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

These were the living creatures which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

I was watching in the night visions, “And with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man was approaching. He went up to the Ancient of Days and was escorted before him.

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).

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.

It was like the vision I saw when he came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.