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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"