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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"