In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.
Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
And the hand of the Lord was upon me there. And he said to me, “Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.”
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the Lord from its place!”
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