Ezekiel 1:4-12

4As I looked, I saw a great storm that was coming from the north. It was a large cloud, with bright lightning. Light shone all around the cloud. It was like a fire that had bright metal in the centre of it.

5I could see something like four living things in the middle of the fire. Each of them had the shape of a human.

6But each of them had four faces and four wings.

7Their legs were straight. Their feet were like the feet of young cows. They shone like bright bronze.

8They had human hands under their wings on the four sides. Each of these four living things had faces and wings that were like this:

9Their wings touched each other. All the living things moved forward together. They did not turn as they moved.

10This is what their faces looked like: Each of the living things had four faces. There was a human face at the front. There was a lion's face on the right side. There was a bull's face on the left side. Each of them also had the face of an eagle.

11Their wings waved up above them. Two wings of each living thing touched the wings of the living things on each side of them. Each living thing covered its body with its other two wings.

12The living things each moved forward, in the direction that the spirit wanted them to go. They did not turn as they moved.