Ezekiel 1:5–21

^5gAlso from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And ^hthis was their appearance: they had ⁱthe likeness of a man. ⁶Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. ⁷Their ³legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled ^jlike the color of burnished bronze. ^8kThe hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings. ⁹Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight ^lforward.

¹⁰As for ^mthe likeness of their faces, each ⁿhad the face of a man; each of the four had ^othe face of a lion on the right side, ^peach of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, ^qand each of the four had the face of an eagle. ¹¹Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and ^rtwo covered their bodies. ¹²And ^seach one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.

¹³As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, ^tlike the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning. ¹⁴And the living creatures ran back and forth, ^uin appearance like a flash of lightning.

¹⁵Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, ^va wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces. ^16wThe appearance of the wheels and their workings was ^xlike the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. ¹⁷When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went. ¹⁸As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were ^yfull of eyes, all around the four of them. ^19zWhen the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. ²⁰Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, ^afor the spirit of the ⁴living creatures was in the wheels. ²¹When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the ⁵living creatures was in the wheels.