Ezequiel 1

Te Kitenga o te Hariota

1 Nā, i te toru tekau o ngā tau, i te whā o ngā marama, i te rima o ngā rā o te marama, i ahau i roto i ngā whakarau o te awa, o Kepara, nā, ka puare ngā rangi, ā, ka kite ahau i ngā putanga Atua.

2 I te rima o ngā rā o te marama, (arā i te rima o ngā tau o tō Kīngi Iehoiakini whakaraunga), 3 ka haere tika tonu mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a Ehekiera tohunga, tama a Puti, i te whenua o ngā Karari, i te taha o te awa, o Kepara; ā, i runga te ringa o Ihowā i a ia i reira.

4 Ā, ka titiro atu ahau, nā, he tūkauati e puta mai ana i te raki – he kapua nui, he ahi e hoki iho ana ki roto ki a ia anō, wheriko tonu i tētahi taha, ā, i waenganui, i rite ki te kara o te amipere, i waenganui anō i te ahi. 5 Nā, ka puta mai i waenganui o taua ahi ko te āhua o ngā mea ora e whā. Ko tō rātou āhua anō tēnei; i rite rātou ki te tangata. 6 Nā, e whā ngā mata o tētahi, o tētahi o rātou, e whā ngā parirau o tētahi, o tētahi. 7 Ko ō rātou waewae, he waewae tika tonu; ko te kapu anō o ō rātou waewae rite tonu ki te kapu o te waewae o te kūao kau; wheriko tonu, rite tonu ki te kānapatanga o te parāhi kua oti te oro. 8 He ringa tangata anō ō rātou i raro i ō rātou parirau, i ō rātou taha e whā. Nā, ko rātou tokowhā, ko ō rātou mata, ko ō rātou parirau, koia tēnei. 9 He mea hono ō rātou parirau tētahi ki tētahi; kīhai rātou i tahuri i a rātou e haere ana; i haere tika tonu atu tētahi, tētahi.

10 Nā, ko te āhua o ō rātou mata: he mata tangata ō rātou, he mata raiona ō rātou tokowhā i te taha ki matau, he mata kau ō rātou tokowhā i te taha ki mauī, he mata ēkara anō ō rātou tokowhā. 11 Nā, ko ō rātou mata, ko ō rātou parirau he mea wehe a runga; ko o te mea kotahi e rua ngā parirau e piri ana tētahi ki tētahi, e rua hei hīpoki mō ō rātou tinana. 12 I haere tika tonu atu hoki rātou tētahi, tētahi. Ko te wāhi hei haerenga atu mō te wairua, haere ana rātou ki reira; kīhai rātou i tahuri i a rātou e haere ana. 13 Nā, ko te rite o aua mea ora, ko tō rātou āhua, koia anō kei te ngārahu ahi i te mea e kā ana, kei te āhua anō o te rama, i hāereere taua ahi i roto i aua mea ora, mura tonu, i puta mai ānō he uira i roto i te ahi. 14 Nā, ko te oma, ko te hokinga o aua mea ora, rite tonu te āhua ki tō te hikonga uira.

15 Nā, i tāku tirohanga ki ngā mea ora, nanā, ko tētahi wīra i runga i te whenua, i te taha o ngā mea ora, kotahi mō te mea kotahi o ōna mata e whā. 16 Ko te āhua o ngā wīra, me tō rātou mahinga, rite tonu te kara ki tō te perira: rite tonu aua wīra e whā; ko tō rātou āhua, ko tō rātou mahinga, me te mea he wīra i roto i te wīra. 17 I tō rātou haerenga i haere i runga i ō rātou taha e whā; kīhai i tahuri i a rātou e haere ana. 18 Nā, ko ō rātou awhi, tiketike rawa, he hanga whakawehi, kapi tonu anō i te kanohi ō rātou awhi i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha, o rātou e whā.

19 Nā, i te haerenga o ngā mea ora i haere anō ngā wīra i tō rātou taha, ā, ka ara ngā mea ora i runga i te whenua, ka ara anō ngā wīra. 20 Ko te wāhi hei haerenga atu mō te wairua, i haere rātou ki reira; ko reira hei haerenga mō te wairua; i ara anō ngā wīra ki runga i tō rātou ritenga atu. Nō te mea i roto i ngā wīra te wairua o te mea ora. 21 I haere ērā, ka haere ēnei; i tū ērā, ka tū ēnei; ā, ka ara ake ērā i runga i te whenua, ka ara anō ngā wīra i tō rātou ritenga atu; nō te mea kei roto te wairua o te mea ora i ngā wīra.

22 Nā, i runga ake i te māhunga o te mea ora ko te āhua o te kikorangi, rite tonu te kara ki tō te karaihe e wehingia ana, he mea hora atu i runga i ō rātou māhunga i te taha ki runga. 23 Nā, i raro i te kikorangi, ko ō rātou parirau, torotika tonu, anga tonu mai tētahi ki tētahi; o te mea kotahi e rua hei hīpoki i tētahi taha, o te mea kotahi anō e rua hei hīpoki i tērā taha o ō rātou tinana. 24 Ā, i a rātou e haere ana, i rongo ahau i te haruru o ō rātou parirau me te mea ko te haruru o ngā wai maha, me te mea anō ko te reo o te Kaha Rawa, he reo e turituri ana, ānō he ngē nō tētahi ope. I ngā wā i tū ai rātou i tukua iho ō rātou parirau.

25 I puta iho anō he reo i te kikorangi i runga i ō rātou māhunga; i te mea ka tū rātou, ka tukua iho ō rātou parirau. 26 Nā, i runga i te kikorangi i runga ake i ō rātou māhunga ko te āhua o tētahi torōna, he mea rite ki te kōhatu hapaira; ā, i runga i te āhua o te torōna ko tētahi āhua e rite ana ki tō te tangata i runga i taua torōna, i te taha ki runga. 27 I kite atu anō ahau me te mea nō te amipere te kara, he mea rite ki te āhua o te ahi i roto ā taka noa, taka noa, i te āhua o tōna hope, ā, haere whakarunga, i te āhua anō o tōna hope, ā, haere whakararo, i kite atu ahau me te mea ko te āhua o te ahi, ā, wheriko tonu te mārama i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha ōna. 28 Rite tonu ki te āhua o te kōpere i te kapua i te rā ua te āhua o te wherikotanga ā taka noa.

Ko te āhua tēnā, ko te ritenga o te korōria o Ihowā. Nō tōku kitenga, tāpapa ana ahau ki raro. Nā, ka rongo ahau i te reo o tētahi e kōrero ana.

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, 3 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.

4 And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. 5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man; 6 and every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings thus: 9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. 11 And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went. 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. 27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.