1 I looked, and behold, above the expanse over the heads of the cherubim was something like a sapphire stone; what could be seen of it was like the form of a throne, appearing above them.
2 He spoke to the man dressed in linen: "Go in between the whirling wheels beneath the cherub; fill both your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And he went in as I watched.
3 The cherubim were standing to the south of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherub to the threshold of the house; the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
5 The noise of the cherubim's wings could be heard all the way to the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
6 When he commanded the man dressed in linen, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," the man went in and stood next to a wheel.
7 One cherub reached out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire between the cherubim, lifted some and placed it in the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and went out.
8 Under the cherubim's wings could be seen the form of a human hand.
9 As I looked, there were four wheels next to the cherubim, a wheel next to each cherub, and the wheels looked like the glint of beryl stone.
10 In appearance all four had the same form, like a wheel inside a wheel.
11 When they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they went; wherever the front faced, they followed it, without turning as they went.
12 Their whole bodies, their backs, their hands and their wings, as well as the wheels, were covered with eyes all around, the wheels that the four of them had.
13 The wheels, as I heard, were called "the whirling wheel."
14 Every one had four faces: the first was the face of the cherub, the second a human face, the third a lion's face, and the fourth an eagle's face.
15 Then the cherubim rose. This was the living creature I had seen beside the river Chebar.
16 Whenever the cherubim moved, the wheels moved alongside them, and when the cherubim raised their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not turn away from beside them either.
17 When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stopped; when they rose, the wheels rose with them, because the spirit of the living creature was in them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD left the threshold of the house and took its stand above the cherubim.
19 The cherubim raised their wings and rose from the ground before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels alongside them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
20 This was the living creature I had seen beneath the God of Israel beside the river Chebar, and I realized that they were cherubim.
21 Every one had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was the form of human hands.
22 As for the form of their faces, they were the very faces I had seen beside the river Chebar, both their appearance and the creatures themselves. Each went straight forward.