1 Olhei e vi algo que se parecia com um trono de safira sobre uma superfície de cristal acima da cabeça dos querubins. 2 Então o Senhor disse ao homem vestido de linho: "Vá entre as rodas que estão debaixo dos querubins, pegue um punhado de brasas ardentes e espalhe-as sobre a cidade". Ele assim fez enquanto eu observava.

3 Os querubins estavam na extremidade sul do templo quando o homem entrou, e a nuvem de glória encheu o pátio interno. 4 Então a glória do Senhor se elevou acima dos querubins e foi para a porta do templo. Essa nuvem encheu o templo, e o pátio resplandeceu com a glória do Senhor. 5 O movimento das asas dos querubins fazia um som como a voz do Deus Todo-poderoso,*10.5 Em hebraico, El-Shaddai. e podia-se ouvi-lo até no pátio externo.

6 O Senhor ordenou ao homem vestido de linho: "Vá entre os querubins e pegue algumas brasas ardentes que estão entre as rodas". O homem foi e colocou-se ao lado das rodas. 7 Em seguida, um dos querubins estendeu a mão e pegou algumas brasas ardentes do fogo que estava entre os querubins. Colocou as brasas nas mãos do homem vestido de linho, e o homem as recebeu e saiu. 8 (Todos os querubins tinham debaixo das asas o que se parecia com mãos humanas.)

9 Olhei e vi que cada um dos quatro querubins tinha ao seu lado uma roda, e as rodas brilhavam como berilo. 10 As quatro rodas eram semelhantes e feitas da mesma forma; cada uma tinha dentro dela outra roda que girava na transversal. 11 Os querubins podiam se deslocar em qualquer uma das quatro direções, sem se virar enquanto se moviam. Deslocavam-se para a frente, sem se virar. 12 Tanto os querubins como as rodas eram cobertos de olhos. Os querubins tinham olhos por todo o corpo, inclusive nas mãos, nas costas e nas asas. 13 Ouvi alguém se referir às rodas como "rodas giratórias". 14 Cada um dos quatro querubins tinha quatro rostos: o primeiro era rosto de boi,*10.14 Em hebraico, rosto de querubim; comparar com 1.10. o segundo, de homem, o terceiro, de leão, e o quarto, de águia.

15 Então os querubins se elevaram. Eram os mesmos seres vivos que eu tinha visto junto ao rio Quebar. 16 Quando os querubins se moviam, as rodas se moviam com eles. Quando levantavam as asas para voar, as rodas os acompanhavam. 17 Quando os querubins paravam, as rodas paravam. Quando voavam para cima, as rodas subiam, pois o espírito dos seres vivos estava nas rodas.

18 Então a glória do Senhor se afastou da porta do templo e parou sobre os querubins. 19 E, enquanto eu observava, os querubins voaram, acompanhados de suas rodas, até a porta leste do templo do Senhor. E a glória do Deus de Israel pairava sobre eles.

20 Esses seres vivos eram os mesmos que eu tinha visto debaixo do Deus de Israel quando estava junto ao rio Quebar. Eu sabia que eram querubins, 21 pois cada um tinha quatro rostos, quatro asas e o que se parecia com mãos humanas debaixo das asas. 22 E seus rostos eram iguais aos dos seres que eu tinha visto no Quebar, e se deslocavam para a frente, como os outros.

1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.*10.2 thine hand: Heb. the hollow of thine hand 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the LORD went 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 the LORD’s glory.*10.4 went up: Heb. was lifted up 5 And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.*10.7 stretched forth: Heb. sent forth

8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.*10.12 body: Heb. flesh 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.*10.13 it was…: or, they were called in my hearing, wheel, or, galgal 14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.*10.17 of…: or, of life 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’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 of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.