Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵In the center of the cloud I saw what looked like four living creatures. They were shaped like humans, ⁶but each of them had four faces and four wings. ⁷Their legs were straight, their feet were like those of calves, and they glittered like polished bronze. ⁸They had human hands under their wings on each of their four sides. All four of them had faces and wings. ⁹Their wings touched each other. The creatures went straight ahead, and they did not turn as they moved. 

¹⁰Their faces looked like this: From the front, each creature had the face of a human. From the right, each one had the face of a lion. From the left, each one had the face of a bull. And from the back, each one had the face of an eagle. ¹¹That is what their faces looked like. Their wings were spread out, pointing upward. Each creature had two wings with which they touched each other. The other two wings covered their bodies. ¹²Each of the creatures went straight ahead. They went wherever their spirit wanted to go, and they didn’t turn as they moved. ¹³The living creatures looked like burning coals and torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning came out of the fire. ¹⁴The living creatures ran back and forth like lightning. 

¹⁵As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each of them. ¹⁶This is how the wheels looked and how they were made: They looked like beryl. All four wheels looked the same. They looked like a wheel within a wheel. ¹⁷Whenever they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without turning as they moved. ¹⁸The rims of the wheels were large and frightening. They were covered with eyes. 

¹⁹When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved with them. When the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. ²⁰Wherever their spirit wanted to go, the creatures went. The wheels rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. ²¹So whenever the creatures moved, the wheels moved. Whenever the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still. And whenever the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.