Ezekiel 1:4-14

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

Cross References 19

  • 1. Isaiah 21:1; Jeremiah 23:19; Ezekiel 13:11, 13
  • 2. Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2
  • 3. Ezek 10:15, 17, 20; Revelation 4:6-8
  • 4. Ezekiel 1:26
  • 5. Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:14, 21
  • 6. Ezekiel 1:23
  • 7. Daniel 10:6; Revelation 1:15
  • 8. Ezekiel 1:17; Ezekiel 10:11
  • 9. Ezekiel 10:8, 21
  • 10. Ezekiel 1:17
  • 11. Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 10:22
  • 12. Revelation 4:7
  • 13. Ezekiel 10:14
  • 14. Isaiah 6:2; Ezekiel 1:23
  • 15. Ezekiel 1:9
  • 16. Ezekiel 1:20
  • 17. Psalms 104:4; Revelation 4:5
  • 18. Zechariah 4:10
  • 19. Matthew 24:27; Luke 17:24

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Lit "the soles of their feet"
  • [b]. Lit "the four of them"
  • [c]. Lit "the four of them"
  • [d]. So with some ancient versions; Heb "as the likeness of the living beings"
  • [e]. Lit "like the appearance of"
  • [f]. Lit "coming out"
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