1 Olhei, e eis que, no firmamento que estava por cima da cabeça dos querubins, havia algo como uma pedra de safira e que parecia ser um trono. 2 E falou ao homem vestido de linho:

— Vá por entre as rodas até debaixo dos querubins e encha as mãos com brasas acesas que estão entre os querubins. Depois, espalhe as brasas sobre a cidade.

Ele entrou, enquanto eu observava. 3 Os querubins estavam no lado sul do templo, quando o homem entrou; e uma nuvem encheu o átrio interior. 4 Então a glória do Senhor se levantou de sobre o querubim e foi para a entrada do templo. O templo se encheu da nuvem, e o átrio ficou cheio do brilho da glória do Senhor. 5 O ruído das asas dos querubins se ouviu até o átrio exterior, como a voz do Deus Todo-Poderoso, quando fala.

6 Quando o Senhor ordenou ao homem vestido de linho que fosse tirar fogo do meio das rodas, do meio dos querubins, ele entrou e se pôs junto às rodas. 7 Então um dos querubins estendeu a mão para o fogo que estava entre eles, pegou algumas brasas e as pôs nas mãos do homem que estava vestido de linho, o qual as pegou e saiu. 8 Os querubins tinham debaixo das suas asas o que parecia ser mão humana.

9 Olhei, e eis quatro rodas junto aos querubins, uma roda junto a cada querubim; o aspecto das rodas era brilhante como pedra de berilo. 10 Quanto ao seu aspecto, as quatro rodas tinham a mesma aparência; eram como se uma roda estivesse dentro da outra. 11 Quando elas andavam, podiam ir em quatro direções e não se viravam quando se moviam. Para onde a primeira roda ia, as outras seguiam; e elas não se viravam quando se moviam. 12 Todo o corpo dos querubins, suas costas, as mãos, as asas e também as rodas estavam cheias de olhos ao redor. 13 Quanto às rodas, pude ouvir que foram chamadas de "giratórias". 14 Cada um dos seres viventes tinha quatro rostos: o primeiro era rosto de querubim, o segundo, rosto humano, o terceiro, rosto de leão, e o quarto, rosto de águia.

15 Os querubins se elevaram. Estes eram os mesmos seres viventes que vi junto ao rio Quebar. 16 Quando os querubins se moviam, as rodas se moviam ao lado deles; quando os querubins levantavam as suas asas, para se elevarem da terra, as rodas não se separavam deles. 17 Quando eles paravam, as rodas paravam; e, quando eles se elevavam, as rodas também se elevavam; porque o espírito dos seres viventes estava nelas.

18 Então a glória do Senhor saiu da entrada do templo e parou sobre os querubins. 19 Os querubins levantaram as suas asas e se elevaram da terra à minha vista, quando saíram acompanhados pelas rodas. Pararam à entrada do portão leste da Casa do Senhor, e a glória do Deus de Israel estava no alto, sobre eles.

20 Estes eram os mesmos seres viventes que vi debaixo do Deus de Israel, junto ao rio Quebar, e fiquei sabendo que eram querubins. 21 Cada um tinha quatro rostos e quatro asas e, debaixo das asas, o que parecia mãos humanas. 22 A aparência dos seus rostos era como a dos rostos que eu tinha visto junto ao rio Quebar; tinham o mesmo aspecto, eram os mesmos seres. Cada um andava para a sua frente.

1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, "Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city."

He went in as I watched. 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory. 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," that he went in and stood beside a wheel. 7 The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 8 The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings.

9 I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. 10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. 11 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went. 12 Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had. 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "the whirling wheels". 14 Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.