10. And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.
11. Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
12. Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,
13. and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.
14. A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.
15. I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, who lived by the Kebar River. I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.
16. At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: