Ezekiel 1:4-28

4As I looked, behold, a 1storm 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 2glowing metal in the midst of the fire. 5Within it there were figures resembling 3four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human 4form. 6Each of them had 5four faces and 6four wings. 7Their legs were straight and 7their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like 8burnished bronze. 8Under their wings on their 9four sides were human 10hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, 9their wings touched one another; their faces did 11not turn when they moved, each 12went straight forward. 10As for the 13form of their faces, each had the 14face of a man; 15all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and 16all four had the face of an eagle. 11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and 17two covering their bodies. 12And 18each went straight forward; 19wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. 1320In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of 21fire, 22like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was 23flashing from the fire. 14And the living beings 24ran to and fro like bolts of 25lightning.

15Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one 26wheel on the earth beside the living beings, 27for each of the four of them. 16The 28appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like 29sparkling 30beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if 31one wheel were within another. 17Whenever they 32moved, they 33moved in any of their four 34directions without 35turning as they 36moved. 18As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were 37full of eyes round about. 1938Whenever the living beings 39moved, the wheels 40moved with them. And whenever the living beings 41rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. 2042Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction43. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living 44beings was in the wheels. 2145Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living 46beings was in the wheels.

22Now 47over the heads of the living 48beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of 49crystal, spread out over their heads. 23Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had 50two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. 24I also heard the sound of their wings like the 51sound of abundant waters as they went, like the 52voice of 53the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the 54sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. 25And there came a voice from above the 55expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

26Now 56above the expanse that was over their heads there was something 57resembling a throne, like 5859lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a 60man. 27Then I 61noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something 62like 63glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. 28As the appearance of the 64rainbow 65in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the 66glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I 67fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.