1 Olhei. Na abóbada estendida acima da cabeça dos querubins, havia como que uma pedra de safira, uma espécie de trono, que aparecia sobre eles.
2 {O Senhor} disse então ao homem vestido de linho: Passa no meio das rodas, debaixo do querubim; enche a mão de carvões ardentes que tomarás entre os querubins, e espalha essas brasas sobre a cidade. E ele se foi sob as minhas vistas.
3 Quando o homem acabou de fazer isso, estavam os querubins à direita do templo, e a nuvem enchia o átrio interior.
4 A glória do Senhor elevou-se acima dos querubins até a soleira do templo, e enquanto o esplendor da glória do Senhor enchia o átrio, a nuvem invadia o templo.
5 O ruflar das asas dos querubins fazia-se ouvir até no pátio exterior, e assemelhava-se à voz do Deus onipotente quando fala.
6 Apenas havia ordenado ao homem de linho tomar o fogo no intervalo das rodas, entre os querubins, este veio postar-se junto de uma roda,
7 e {um dos} querubins estendeu a mão para o fogo que se encontrava em meio dos querubins. Daí ele retirou brasas, que colocou na mão do homem vestido de linho, o qual as tomou, e saiu.
8 Notei que os querubins pareciam ter mãos humanas sob as asas.
9 Eu olhei ainda. Havia ao lado dos querubins quatro rodas, uma junto a cada um deles. Possuíam o clarão da gema de Társis.
10 Todas as quatro pareciam ter a mesma forma, e cada uma parecia estar no meio da outra.
11 Deslocando-se nas quatro direções, avançavam sem se voltarem, porque iam sempre na direção tomada pela que ia à frente, sem se voltar em seu movimento.
12 Todo o seu corpo, suas costas, suas mãos e suas asas, assim como as rodas, achavam-se guarnecidas de olhos em derredor: cada um dos quatro possuía uma roda.
13 Ouvi que se dava a essas rodas o nome de turbilhão.
14 Cada um {dos querubins} tinha quatro faces: o primeiro, a de um querubim; o segundo, um aspecto humano; o terceiro, o de um touro, e o quarto o de uma águia.
15 Os querubins se elevaram {eram os seres vivos que eu tinha visto às margens do Cobar}.
16 Quando os querubins se deslocavam, as rodas se deslocavam com eles; quando desdobravam as asas para elevar-se da terra, as rodas não se desprendiam deles.
17 Quando paravam, as rodas paravam; se se elevavam no espaço, elas de igual modo se elevavam, porque o espírito desses seres vivos estava {também} nelas.
18 De repente, a glória do Senhor deixou a soleira do templo e pousou sobre os querubins.
19 Estes desdobraram as asas, e eu os vi alçarem-se da terra com as rodas ao lado, para partirem. Eles pararam à entrada da porta oriental do templo, dominados pela glória do Senhor.
20 Estavam lá os seres vivos que eu tinha visto debaixo do Deus de Israel, às margens do Cobar, e reconheci os querubins:
21 cada um tinha quatro figuras e quatro asas, e sob as asas algo parecido com mãos humanas.
22 Suas figuras assemelhavam-se àquelas que eu tinha visto às margens do Cobar. Cada um deles ia para a frente diante de si.
1 And I look, and lo, on the expanse that [is] above the head of the cherubs, as a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, He hath been seen over them.
2 And He speaketh unto the man clothed with linen, and saith, `Go in unto the midst of the wheel, unto the place of the cherub, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter over the city.` And he goeth in before mine eyes.
3 And the cherubs are standing on the right side of the house, at the going in of the man, and the cloud hath filled the inner court,
4 and become high doth the honour of Jehovah above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honour of Jehovah.
5 And a noise of the wings of the cherubs hath been heard unto the outer court, as the voice of God -- the Mighty One -- in His speaking.
6 And it cometh to pass, in His commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, `Take fire from between the wheel, from between the cherubs,` and he goeth in and standeth near the wheel,
7 that the [one] cherub putteth forth his hand from between the cherubs unto the fire that [is] between the cherubs, and lifteth up, and giveth into the hands of him who is clothed with linen, and he receiveth, and cometh forth.
8 And there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings,
9 and I look, and lo, four wheels near the cherubs, one wheel near the one cherub, and another wheel near the other cherub, and the appearance of the wheels [is] as the colour of a beryl stone.
10 As to their appearances, one likeness [is] to them four, as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
11 In their going, on their four sides they go; they turn not round in their going, for to the place whither the head turneth, after it they go, they turn not round in their going.
12 And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, are full of eyes round about; to them four [are] their wheels.
13 To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, `O wheel!`
14 And four faces [are] to each; the face of the one [is] the face of the cherub, and the face of the second the face of man, and of the third the face of a lion, and of the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubs are lifted up, it [is] the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
16 And in the going of the cherubs, the wheels go beside them; and in the cherubs lifting up their wings to be high above the earth, the wheels turn not round, even they, from being beside them.
17 In their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them: for the living spirit [is] in them.
18 And go forth doth the honour of Jehovah from off the threshold of the house, and standeth over the cherubs,
19 and the cherubs lift up their wings, and are lifted up from the earth before mine eyes; in their going forth, the wheels also [are] over-against them, and he standeth at the opening of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the honour of the God of Israel [is] over them from above.
20 It [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I know that they are cherubs.
21 Four faces [are] to each, and four wings to each, and the likeness of the hands of man [is] under their wings.
22 As to the likeness of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; each straight forward they go.