Ezekiel 1:4–14

4 As I looked, behold, a astorm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like bglowing metal in the midst of the fire.

5 Within it there were figures resembling afour living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human bform.

6 Each of them had afour faces and bfour wings.

7 Their legs were straight and 1their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like aburnished bronze.

8 Under their wings on their afour sides were human bhands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

9 their wings touched one another; their faces did anot turn when they moved, each bwent straight forward.

10 As for the aform of their faces, each had the bface of a man; 1all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and 1all four had the face of an eagle.

11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and atwo covering their bodies.

12 And aeach went straight forward; bwherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

13 1In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of afire, 2like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was 3flashing from the fire.

14 And the living beings aran to and fro like bolts of blightning.