New King James Version

Ezekiel 1:11-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

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.

21. When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.