¹⁵ Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and ^(A)I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Longing for Zion in a Foreign Land

¹³ So they sat down with him on the ground ^(A)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Ezekiel’s Vision of God

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by ^(A)the River Chebar, that ^(B)the heavens were opened and I saw ^(C)visions^[a] of God.

¹⁰ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they ^(A)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. ^(B)He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

¹⁵ And the cherubim were lifted up. This was ^(A)the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.

False Prophets and Empty Oracles

²³ So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, ^(A)the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I ^(B)saw by the River Chebar; ^(C)and I fell on my face.

³ It was ^(A)like the appearance of the vision which I saw—like the vision which I saw when ^[a]I came ^(B)to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw ^(C)by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.