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 of Chebar, that the heavens were ^copened, and I saw visions of God.

  8  And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the ^bheavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God.