¹ في السنة التاسعة لصدقيا ملك يهوذا في الشهر العاشر اتى نبوخذراصر ملك بابل وكل جيشه الى اورشليم وحاصروها.

² وفي السنة الحادية عشرة لصدقيا في الشهر الرابع في تاسع الشهر فتحت المدينة.

³ ودخل كل رؤساء ملك بابل وجلسوا في الباب الاوسط نرجل شراصر وسمجرنبو وسرسخيم رئيس الخصيان ونرجل شراصر رئيس المجوس وكل بقية رؤساء ملك بابل.

⁴ فلما رآهم صدقيا ملك يهوذا وكل رجال الحرب هربوا وخرجوا ليلا من المدينة في طريق جنة الملك من الباب بين السورين وخرج هو في طريق العربة.

⁵ فسعى جيش الكلدانيين وراءهم فادركوا صدقيا في عربات اريحا فاخذوه واصعدوه الى نبوخذناصّر ملك بابل الى ربلة في ارض حماة فكلمه بالقضاء عليه.

⁶ فقتل ملك بابل بني صدقيا في ربلة امام عينيه وقتل ملك بابل كل اشراف يهوذا.

⁷ واعمى عيني صدقيا وقيده بسلاسل نحاس لياتى به الى بابل.

⁸ اما بيت الملك وبيوت الشعب فاحرقها الكلدانيون بالنار ونقضوا اسوار اورشليم.

⁹ وبقية الشعب الذين بقوا في المدينة والهاربون الذين سقطوا له وبقية الشعب الذين بقوا سباهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط الى بابل.

¹⁰ ولكن بعض الشعب الفقراء الذين لم يكن لهم شيء تركهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط في ارض يهوذا واعطاهم كروما وحقولا في ذلك اليوم

¹¹ واوصى نبوخذراصر ملك بابل على ارميا نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط قائلا

¹² خذه وضع عينك عليه ولا تفعل به شيئا رديئا بل كما يكلمك هكذا افعل معه.

¹³ فارسل نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط ونبوشزبان رئيس الخصيان ونرجل شراصر رئيس المجوس وكل رؤساء ملك بابل

¹⁴ ارسلوا فاخذوا ارميا من دار السجن واسلموه لجدليا بن اخيقام بن شافان ليخرج به الى البيت. فسكن بين الشعب

¹⁵ وصارت كلمة الرب الى ارميا اذ كان محبوسا في دار السجن قائلة

¹⁶ اذهب وكلم عبد ملك الكوشي قائلا. هكذا قال رب الجنود اله اسرائيل. هانذا جالب كلامي على هذه المدينة للشر لا للخير فيحدث امامك في ذلك اليوم.

¹⁷ ولكنني انقذك في ذلك اليوم يقول الرب فلا تسلم ليد الناس الذين انت خائف منهم.

¹⁸ بل انما انجيك نجاة فلا تسقط بالسيف بل تكون لك نفسك غنيمة لانك قد توكلت عليّ يقول الرب

⁵ هكذا يقول الله الرب خالق السموات وناشرها باسط الارض ونتائجها معطي الشعب عليها نسمة والساكنين فيها روحا.

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.