¹ Siis ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, taevalaotuses, mis oli keerubite pea kohal, olid nagu safiirikivid; midagi, mis paistis aujärjena, nähti nende kohal.

² Ja ta rääkis mehega, kellel olid linased riided seljas, ja ütles: 'Mine rataste vahele, mis on iga keerubi all, ja täida pihud tuliste sütega keerubite vahelt ning pillu need linna peale!' Ja mees läks sisse minu nähes.

³ Keerubid seisid kojas paremal pool, kui mees läks, ja pilv täitis sisemise õue.

⁴ Siis tõusis Issanda auhiilgus keerubi kohalt koja lävele, koda täitus pilvest ja õu täitus Issanda auhiilguse särast.

⁵ Ja keerubite tiibade kahinat kuuldus kuni välimise õueni nagu Kõigeväelise Jumala häält, kui ta kõneleb.

⁶ Ja kui ta käskis meest, kellel olid linased riided seljas, öeldes: 'Võta tuld rataste vahelt, keerubite vahelt!', siis läks see ja asetus ratta kõrvale.

⁷ Ja üks keerub pistis oma käe keerubite vahelt tule juurde, mis oli keerubite vahel, ja võttis seda ning andis linasesse riietatu pihkudesse; ja see võttis ning läks välja.

⁸ Keerubitel paistis tiibade all olevat otsekui inimese käsi.

⁹ Ja ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, keerubite kõrval oli neli ratast, iga keerubi kõrval oli ratas, ja rattad olid välimuselt nagu krüsoliidikivid.

¹⁰ Ja neil neljal oli ühesugune välimus, otsekui oleks ratas olnud ratta sees.

¹¹ Kui nad liikusid, siis nad said minna iga nelja külje suunas, käigul pöördumata; sest sinna, kuhu oli pööratud esikülg, läksid nad selle järel; käigul nad ei pöördunud.

¹² Ja kogu nende keha, seljad, käed, tiivad ja rattad olid ümberringi täis silmi; sel nelikul olid rattad

¹³ ja rattaid nimetati, nagu ma kuulsin, 'ratastikuks'.

¹⁴ Ja igaühel oli neli nägu: üks oli keerubi nägu, teine inimese nägu, kolmas lõvi nägu ja neljas kotka nägu.

¹⁵ Ja keerubid tõusid üles, need olid samad olevused, keda ma olin näinud Kebari jõe ääres.

¹⁶ Ja kui keerubid liikusid, siis liikusid rattad nende kõrval; ja kui keerubid tõstsid tiibu, et maa pealt üles tõusta, siis ei pöördunud ka rattad ära nende kõrvalt.

¹⁷ Kui ühed seisid, siis seisid ka teised, ja kui ühed tõusid üles, siis tõusid teised koos nendega, sest nende sees oli olevuse vaim.

¹⁸ Siis Issanda auhiilgus läks ära koja lävelt ja seisis keerubite kohal.

¹⁹ Ja minnes tõstsid keerubid oma tiibu ning tõusid maast üles mu silme all, ja nende rattad samuti nagu nad isegi; nad jäid seisma Issanda koja idapoolse värava suus ja Iisraeli Jumala auhiilgus oli ülal nende kohal.

²⁰ Need olid needsamad olevused, keda ma olin näinud Iisraeli Jumala all Kebari jõe ääres; ja ma mõistsin, et need olid keerubid.

²¹ Igaühel oli neli nägu ja igaühel oli neli tiiba, ja neil olid otsekui inimese käed tiibade all.

²² Ja nende nägude kuju: need olid näod, mida ma olin näinud Kebari jõe ääres, nende välimus ja need ise; igaüks läks edasi omaette.

² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

³ They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

⁴ Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

⁵ They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

⁷ Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

⁹ Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰ For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

¹¹ I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

¹³ Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

¹⁴ but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

¹⁵ therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

¹⁸ and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

²⁰ Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

²¹ For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

²² Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

²³ Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

²⁴ but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

²⁵ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

²⁶ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.