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- Ezekiel continues to describe his vision.
- a windstorm - This is a storm that has a lot of wind.
- coming from the north - North is the direction to your left when you look toward the sun while it is rising.
- a great cloud with fire flashing within it - This could be translated as a new sentence: "The storm had a very large cloud with fire flashing in it."
- fire flashing - Possible meanings are 1) "flashing lightning" or 2) "constant lightning."
- and brightness surrounding it and inside of it - "and a very bright light was around the cloud and inside of it"
- the color of amber - Alternate translations: "bright yellow like amber" or "bright yellow" or "glowing yellow"
- amber - a hard yellow resin that is used as a beautiful decoration on jewelry
- In the middle - "Inside the storm"
- was the likeness of four living creatures - "there were things that looked like four creatures" or "there was what looked like four creatures"
- This was their appearance - "This is what the four creatures looked like"
- they had the likeness of a man - "the four creatures looked like people"
- but they had four faces each, and each of the creatures had four wings - "but each of them had four different faces and four wings"