Ezekiel’s Vision of Jerusalem

8 It was the sixth year [^Csince king Jehoiachin’s exile (1:2)], on the fifth day of the sixth month [^CSeptember 17, 592 bc; this vision is the subject of chapters 8–11]. I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah in front of me. There ·I felt the power of the Lord God [^Lthe hand of the Lord God came upon me]. ² I looked and saw something that looked like a ·human [man]. From the waist down it looked like fire, and from the waist up it looked like bright glowing ·metal [or amber]. ³ ·It [or He] stretched out the shape of a hand and caught me by the hair on my head. ·The Spirit [or A spirit; or The wind] lifted me up between the earth and ·the sky [heaven]. He took me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple. In the courtyard was the ·idol that caused God to be jealous [^Limage of jealousy; 2 Kin. 21:7; 2 Chr. 33:7, 15]. ⁴ I saw the glory of the God of Israel [^Chis manifest presence] there, as I had seen ·on the plain [in the valley].