<p class="bodytext">The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings<n id="1" /> I saw at the Kebar River.

<p class="poetry">Then I will make their waters calm,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

&#8220;Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;You were like a lion<n id="1" /> among the nations,p> <p class="poetry">but you are a monster in the seas;p> <p class="poetry">you thrash about in your streams,p> <p class="poetry">stir up the water with your feet,p> <p class="poetry">and muddy your<n id="2" /> streams.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirtieth year,<n id="1" /> on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles<n id="2" /> at the Kebar River,<n id="3" /> the heavens opened<n id="4" /> and I saw a divine vision.<n id="5" />

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River,<n id="1" /> and I threw myself face down.p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the living creatures<n id="1" /> 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.p>

<p class="poetry">The water made it grow;p> <p class="poetry">underground springs made it grow tall.p> <p class="poetry">Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,p> <p class="poetry">while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.<n id="1" />p>

the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the priest Ezekiel<n id="1" /> the son of Buzi,<n id="2" /> at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.<n id="3" /> The hand<n id="4" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> came on him there).p>

I came to the exiles at Tel Abib,<n id="1" /> who lived by the Kebar River.<n id="2" /> I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: On the day it<n id="1" /> went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament.<n id="2" /> I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

It was like the vision I saw when he<n id="1" /> came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.