Old Testament

New Testament

Ezekiel 1:10-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

10. The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right of each of them, and the face of an ox on the left of each of them, and the face of an eagle for each of them.

11. So were their faces; their wings were spread out upward; each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies.

12. And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit went they went, and they did not turn as they went.

13. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and the fire was very bright and lightning was going out from the fire.

14. And the living creatures were speeding to and fro like the appearance of lightning.

15. And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earth beside each of the living creatures that had four faces.

16. The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like the appearance of beryl, and they all looked alike, and their appearance and their construction was like a wheel within a wheel.

17. When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not veer at all as they went.

18. And their rims were high and awesome, and all four of their rims were full of eyes all around.

19. And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them also went, and when the creatures were lifted from the ground the wheels also rose.

20. Wherever the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

21. At their going, they go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth, the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

22. Now the likeness above the heads of the living creatures was an expanse like the outward appearance of awesome ice spread out above their heads upward.

23. And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight one toward the other; each had two wings covering them, and each had two wings covering their bodies.

Read complete chapter Ezekiel 1