Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵The likeness of four living creatures came from it,^k and this was their appearance: They looked something like a human, ⁶but each of them had four faces and four wings. ⁷Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, sparkling like the gleam of polished bronze.^{l 8}They had human hands under their wings on their four sides.^m All four of them had faces and wings.^{n 9}Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.^{o 10}Their faces looked something like the face of a human,^p and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle.^{q 11}That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.^{r 12}Each creature went straight ahead.^s Wherever the Spirit wanted to go, they went without turning as they moved.^t

¹³The likeness of the living creatures was like the appearance of blazing coals of fire or like torches.^u Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it. ¹⁴The creatures were darting back and forth^v like flashes of lightning.^w

¹⁵When I looked at the living creatures, there was one wheel on the ground beside each of the four-faced creatures. ¹⁶The appearance of the wheels^x and their craftsmanship was like the gleam of beryl,^y and all four had the same likeness. Their appearance and craftsmanship was like a wheel within a wheel. ¹⁷When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. ¹⁸Their four rims were tall and awe-inspiring, completely covered with eyes^z all around. ¹⁹When the living creatures moved,^aa the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels also rose. ²⁰Wherever the Spirit wanted to go, the creatures went in the direction the Spirit was moving. The wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. ²¹When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stopped, the wheels stopped; and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.