Beside the Chebar

There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River,
I heard the Lord speak to me, and I felt his power.

I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the north.
Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud, and the sky around it was glowing.
Where the lightning was flashing, something shone like bronze.

At the center of the storm I saw what looked like four living creatures
in human form, but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Their legs were straight, and they had hoofs like those of a bull.
They shone like polished bronze. In addition to their four faces
and four wings, they each had four human hands, one under each wing.

Two wings of each creature were spread out so that the creatures
formed a square, with their wing tips touching. When they moved,
they moved as a group without turning their bodies.

Each living creature had four different faces: a human face in front, a lion's face
at the right, a bull's face at the left, and an eagle's face at the back.

Two wings of each creature were raised so that they touched the tips
of the wings of the creatures next to it,
and their other two wings were folded against their bodies.

Each creature faced all four directions, and so the group could go
wherever they wished, without having to turn.
‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭1‬:‭12‬ ‭(GNT‬‬)