Ezekiel 10

1 And I looked, and behold, at the firmament that [was] over the head of the cherubim [was] like a stone of sapphire, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, was seen above them.

2 And He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and He said: “Go to the midst of the wheel, to beneath the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over the city!” And he went [in] before my eyes.

3 And the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, at the going in of the man, and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 And the glory of YHWH went up from the cherub, over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of YHWH.

5 And the voice of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of El-Shaddai in His speaking.

6 And it came to pass in His commanding the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside a wheel.

7 And the cherub sent forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that [was] between the cherubim, and he took and put [it] into the hands of the one clothed in linen, and he took [it] and went out.

8 (And was seen unto the cherubim the form of the hand of a man under their wings.)

9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside the one cherub, and one wheel beside the one cherub; and the appearance of the wheels [was] like the eye of a stone of beryl.

10 And their appearance [was] one likeness unto four of them, as [if] it were a wheel in the midst of the wheel.

11 In their going toward four directions, they did go; they did not turn aside in their going; for the place where the head turned, toward it they would go; they did not turn aside In their going.

12 And all of their body—their rims, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, [were] full of eyes all around, wheels as their four.

13 The wheels, unto them it was called in my ears, “The whirling wheels.”

14 And four faces [were] unto each one: The face of the first [was] the face of a cherub, and the face of the second [was] the face of a man, and the face of the third a lion, and the face of the fourth an eagle.

15 And the cherubim rose upward. This [was] the living creature that I saw by the River Chebar.

16 And in the going of the cherubim, the wheels went beside them; and the cherubim, in the lifting up of their wings, rose up from the earth, [and] the wheels did not turn, also they [were] beside them.

17 In their standing still and in their rising up [they] were raised up with them, for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.

18 And went out the glory of YHWH from upon the threshold of the house, and it stood over the cherubim.

19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they were raised up from the earth before my eyes; and in their going out, also [were] the wheels beside them. And they stood [at] the entrance of the gate of the house of YHWH [in] the east, and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them from above.

20 This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the River Kebar; and I knew that they [were] cherubim.

21 Four—four faces [were] unto each one, and four wings unto each one, and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces, they [were] the faces that I had seen by the River Kebar, their appearances and themselves. Each one to straight ahead of its face they would go.