Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.

⁶Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.

⁷Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing brass.

⁸And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides,

⁹And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

¹⁰And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.

¹¹And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

¹²And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

¹³And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.

¹⁴And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.

¹⁵Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.

¹⁶And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

¹⁷When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

¹⁸The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.

¹⁹And, when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.

²⁰Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

²¹When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.