“I looked.
There was a figure
That looked
Like a human being.
Below what appeared
To be his loins
It was fire.
Above his loins
It was like
The appearance of brightness,
Like gleaming amber.
He stretched out
The form of a hand.
He took me
By a lock
Of my head.
The Spirit lifted me up
Between earth and heaven.
He brought me,
In visions of God,
To Jerusalem,
To the entrance
Of the gateway
Of the inner court
That faces north.
I went to the seat
Of the image of jealousy
That provokes jealousy.
The glory
Of the God
Of Israel
Was there,
Like the vision
That I had seen
In the valley.”
Ezekiel continued in the first person singular as he explained his vision. The description of the human figure and the fire is like that of chapter 1 of this book. There was a fire below his loins, with bright amber above his loins. Once again this Holy Spirit stretched out his hand. He lifted Ezekiel up by the hair on his head and brought him to Jerusalem in a vision. Ezekiel was at the entrance to the gateway of the inner court that faced north. He was put on the seat of jealousy. There the glory of the God of Israel appeared just as he had appeared in chapter 1 in the valley by the River Chebar.