1 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 ^kstruck down, on that very day, ^lthe hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.¹ 2 In ^mvisions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down ⁿon a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. 3 When he brought me there, behold, there was a ^oman whose appearance was ^plike bronze, with a linen cord and a ^qmeasuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway. 4 And the man said to me, “Son of man, ^rlook with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. ^sDeclare all that you see to the house of Israel.”