Ezekiel 1:1-3

Good News Translation

EZEKIEL'S FIRST VISION OF GOD (1.1—7.27)

God's Throne

1 ^(A)On the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year,^[a] I, Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, was living with the Jewish exiles by the Chebar River in Babylonia. The sky opened, and I saw a vision of God. (^2 (B)It was the fifth year since King Jehoiachin had been taken into exile.) ³ There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I heard the Lord speak to me, and I felt his power.