Hiezechielis Prophetæ 1
1 Et factum est in trigesimo anno, in quarto, in quinta mensis, cum essem in medio captivorum iuxta fluvium Chobar, aperti sunt cæli, et vidi visiones Dei.
And it comes to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the expulsion by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.
2 In quinta mensis, ipse est annus quintus transmigrationis regis Ioachin,
In the fifth of the month—it is the fifth year of the expulsion of King Jehoiachin—
3 factum est verbum Domini ad Ezechielem filium Buzi sacerdotem in terra Chaldæorum, secus flumen Chobar: et facta est super eum ibi manus Domini.
the word of YHWH has certainly been to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, and there is on him there a hand of YHWH.
4 Et vidi, et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab Aquilone: et nubes magna, et ignis involvens, et splendor in circuitu eius: et de medio eius quasi species electri, id est, de medio ignis:
And I look, and behold, a turbulent wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it all around, and out of its midst as the color of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.
5 et in medio eius similitudo quattuor animalium: et hic aspectus eorum, similitudo hominis in eis.
And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,
6 Quattuor facies uni, et quattuor pennæ uni.
and each had four faces and each of them had four wings,
7 Pedes eorum pedes recti, et planta pedis eorum quasi planta pedis vituli, et scintillæ quasi aspectus æris candentis.
and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf’s foot, and they are sparkling as the color of bright bronze;
8 Et manus hominis sub pennis eorum in quattuor partibus: et facies, et pennas per quattuor partes habebant.
and on their four sides [each had] hands of man under their wings; and [each] of the four had their faces and their wings;
9 Iunctæque erant pennæ eorum alterius ad alterum. Non revertebantur cum incederent: sed unumquodque ante faciem suam gradiebatur.
their wings [are] joining to one another, they do not turn around in their going, they each go straight forward.
10 Similitudo autem vultus eorum: facies hominis, et facies leonis a dextris ipsorum quattuor: facies autem bovis, a sinistris ipsorum quattuor, et facies aquilæ desuper ipsorum quattuor.
As for the likeness of their faces, [each had] the face of a man, and toward the right the four had the face of a lion, and on the left the four had the face of an ox, and the four had the face of an eagle.
11 Facies eorum, et pennæ eorum extentæ desuper: duæ pennæ singulorum iungebantur, et duæ tegebant corpora eorum:
And their faces and their wings dividing from above, of each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
12 et unumquodque eorum coram facie sua ambulabat: ubi erat impetus spiritus, illuc gradiebantur, nec revertebantur cum ambularent.
And they each go straight forward, to where the Spirit is to go, they go, they do not turn around in their going.
13 Et similitudo animalium, aspectus eorum quasi carbonum ignis ardentium, et quasi aspectus lampadarum. Hæc erat visio discurrens in medio animalium, splendor ignis, et de igne fulgur egrediens.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire—burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and lightning is going forth out of the fire.
14 Et animalia ibant, et revertebantur in similitudinem fulguris coruscantis.
And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.
15 Cumque aspicerem animalia, apparuit rota una super terram iuxta animalia, habens quattuor facies.
And I see the living creatures, and behold, one wheel [is] in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces.
16 Et aspectus rotarum, et opus earum, quasi visio maris: et una similitudo ipsarum quattuor: et aspectus earum et opera, quasi sit rota in medio rotæ.
The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
17 Per quattuor partes earum euntes ibant: et non revertebantur cum ambularent.
On their four sides, in their going they go, they do not turn around in their going.
18 Statura quoque erat rotis, et altitudo, et horribilis aspectus: et totum corpus oculis plenum in circuitu ipsarum quattuor.
As for their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings, of the four of them, [are] full of eyes around them.
19 Cumque ambularent animalia, ambulabant pariter et rotæ iuxta ea: et cum elevarentur animalia de terra, elevabantur simul et rotæ.
And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up.
20 Quocumque ibat spiritus, illuc eunte spiritu, et rotæ pariter elevabantur, sequentes eum. Spiritus enim vitæ erat in rotis.
To where the Spirit is to go, they go, there the Spirit [is] to go, and the wheels are lifted up alongside them, for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.
21 Cum euntibus ibant, et cum stantibus stabant: et cum elevatis a terra, pariter elevabantur et rotæ, sequentes ea: quia spiritus vitæ erat in rotis.
In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up alongside them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.
22 Et similitudo super capita animalium firmamenti, quasi aspectus crystalli horribilis, et extenti super capita eorum desuper.
And over the heads of the living creatures—a likeness of an expanse, as the color of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.
23 Sub firmamento autem pennæ eorum rectæ alterius ad alterum: unumquodque duabus alis velabat corpus suum, et alterum similiter velabatur.
And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward [its] sister; two [wings] of each are covering them, and two [wings] of each are covering their bodies.
24 Et audiebam sonum alarum, quasi sonum aquarum multarum, quasi sonum sublimis Dei: cum ambularent quasi sonus erat multitudinis ut sonus castrorum. Cumque starent, demittebantur pennæ eorum.
And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters, as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going—the noise of tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let their wings fall.
25 Nam cum fieret vox super firmamentum, quod erat super caput eorum, stabant, et submittebant alas suas.
And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their head: in their standing they let their wings fall.
26 Et super firmamentum, quod erat imminens capiti eorum, quasi aspectus lapidis sapphiri similitudo throni: et super similitudinem throni similitudo quasi aspectus hominis desuper.
And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man on it from above.
27 Et vidi quasi speciem electri, velut aspectum ignis, intrinsecus eius per circuitum: a lumbis eius et desuper, et a lumbis eius usque deorsum, vidi quasi speciem ignis splendentis in circuitu:
And I see as the color of electrum, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of His loins and upward; and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I have seen as the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] all around Him.
28 Velut aspectum arcus cum fuerit in nube in die pluviæ. Hic erat aspectus splendoris per gyrum.
As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness all around.
