When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow without turning as they moved,

Each moved straight ahead – wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.

You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.

their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.

When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.

I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.

“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”

Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.