¹ Daarna riep Hij voor mijn oren met luider stem, zeggende: Doet de opzieners der stad naderen, en elkeen met zijn verdervend wapen in zijn hand.

² En ziet, zes mannen kwamen van den weg der Hoge poort, die gekeerd is naar het noorden, en elkeen met zijn verpletterend wapen in zijn hand; en een man in het midden van hen was met linnen bekleed, en een schrijvers-inktkoker was aan zijn lenden; en zij kwamen in, en stonden bij het koperen altaar.

³ En de heerlijkheid des Gods van Israel hief zich op van den cherub, waarop Hij was, tot den dorpel van het huis; en Hij riep tot den man, die met linnen bekleed was, die de schrijvers-inktkoker aan zijn lenden had.

⁴ En de HEERE zeide tot hem: Ga door, door het midden der stad, door het midden van Jeruzalem, en teken een teken op de voorhoofden der lieden, die zuchten en uitroepen over al deze gruwelen, die in het midden derzelve gedaan worden.

⁵ Maar tot die anderen zeide Hij voor mijn oren: Gaat door, door de stad achter hem, en slaat, ulieder oog verschone niet, en spaart niet!

⁶ Doodt ouden, jongelingen en maagden, en kinderkens en vrouwen, tot verdervens toe; maar genaakt aan niemand, op denwelken het teken is, en begint van Mijn heiligdom. En zij begonnen van de oude mannen, die voor het huis waren.

⁷ En Hij zeide tot hen: Verontreinigt het huis, en vervult de voorhoven met verslagenen; gaat henen uit. En zij gingen henen uit, en zij sloegen in de stad.

⁸ Het geschiedde nu, als zij hen geslagen hadden, en ik overgebleven was, dat ik op mijn aangezicht viel, en riep, en zeide: Ach, Heere Heere, zult Gij al het overblijfsel van Israel verderven, met Uw grimmigheid uit te gieten over Jeruzalem?

⁹ Toen zeide Hij tot mij: De ongerechtigheid van het huis van Israel en van Juda is gans zeer groot, en het land is met bloed vervuld, en de stad is vol van afwijking; want zij zeggen: De HEERE heeft het land verlaten, en de HEERE ziet niet.

¹⁰ Daarom ook, wat Mij aangaat, Mijn oog zal niet verschonen, en Ik zal niet sparen; Ik zal hun weg op hun hoofd geven.

¹¹ En ziet, de man, die met linnen bekleed was, aan wiens lenden de inktkoker was, bracht bescheid weder, zeggende: Ik heb gedaan, gelijk als Gij mij geboden hadt.

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 The glory of Yahweh 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 forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

⁸ There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

⁹ I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and 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, and their backs, and their hands, and 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 had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth 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; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

¹⁸ The glory of Yahweh went forth 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 forth, and the wheels beside them: and 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; and 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 went every one straight forward.