Ezekiel 10:4-18

4Then the Lord's bright glory rose up. It went up from above the cherubs. It moved to the entrance of the temple. The cloud filled the temple. The bright glory of the Lord's shone everywhere in the yard.

5The noise of the cherubs' wings was very loud. It reached as far as the outside yard. The noise was like the voice of Almighty God when he speaks.

6The Lord gave a command to the man who was wearing linen clothes. He said, ‘Go in among the cherubs. Take coals of fire from between the wheels.’ So the man went in and he stood beside one of the wheels.

7Then one of the cherubs put his hand towards the fire which was among the cherubs. He took some coals from the fire. He put them into the hands of the man who was wearing linen clothes. The man took the coals and he went out.

8(Under the wings of the cherubs I could see something that looked like human hands.)

9In the vision, I saw four wheels beside the cherubs. There was one wheel at the side of each cherub. The wheels shone like bright jewels.

10All the four wheels looked the same. Each wheel had another wheel that went across the middle of it.

11When the cherubs moved, they could go forward in any of the four directions. They did not have to turn as they moved. When the head turned in a certain direction, they would move that way. They did not need to turn.

12Eyes completely covered their bodies. This included their backs, their hands and their wings. Eyes also covered the edges of all the wheels.

13I heard someone call the wheels, ‘wheels that turn very fast’.

14Each of the cherubs had four faces. One face was the face of a bull. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was a lion's face. And the fourth face was an eagle's face.

15The cherubs rose up into the air. They were the same as the living things that I had seen beside the River Kebar.

16When they moved, the wheels that were beside them also moved. When the cherubs lifted up their wings to fly into the air, the wheels moved beside them.

17When the cherubs stood still, the wheels also stood still. And when the cherubs rose in the air, the wheels also rose with them. This was because the spirit of the living things was in the wheels.

18Then the glory of the Lord moved away from the entrance of the temple. It stopped at a place above the cherubs.