以西结书一章4至20节

4我观看，见狂风从北方刮来，随着有一朵包括闪烁火的大云，周围有光辉，从其中的火内发出好像光耀的精金；

5又从其中显出四个活物的形像来。他们的形状是这样：有人的形像，

6各有四个脸面，四个翅膀；

7他们的腿是直的，脚掌好像牛犊之蹄，都灿烂如光明的铜；

8在四面的翅膀以下有人的手。这四个活物的脸和翅膀乃是这样：

9翅膀彼此相接，行走并不转身，俱各直往前行。

10至于脸的形像：前面各有人的脸，右面各有狮子的脸，左面各有牛的脸，后面各有鹰的脸。

11各展开上边的两个翅膀相接，各以下边的两个翅膀遮体。

12他们俱各直往前行，灵往哪里去，他们就往那里去，行走并不转身。

13至于四活物的形像，就如烧着火炭的形状，又如火把的形状。火在四活物中间上去下来，这火有光辉，从火中发出闪电。

14这活物往来奔走，好像电光一闪。

15我正观看活物的时候，见活物的脸旁，各有一轮在地上。

16轮的形状和颜色（注：原文作“做法”）好像水苍玉。四轮都是一个样式，形状和做法好像轮中套轮。

17轮行走的时候，向四方都能直行，并不掉转。

18至于轮辋，高而可畏；四个轮辋周围满有眼睛。

19活物行走，轮也在旁边行走；活物从地上升，轮也都上升；

20灵往哪里去，活物就往那里去；活物上升，轮也在活物旁边上升，因为活物的灵在轮中。

Ezekiel 1:4-20

4 Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

6 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.

8 The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings.

9 Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.

11 Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and two covered their bodies.

12 And each one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning.

14 And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17 When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

18 As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.