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Ezekiel 10

10 Then, as I continued to look on, I suddenly noticed that a shape appeared above the vaulted, crystalline dome that arched high over the heads of the four cherubim. It looked like a throne made of a very valuable blue stone. 2 Yahweh then spoke to the man who wore the linen clothing. He said, “Go to the spaces in between the whirling array of gyroscopic wheels that are under the cherubim. Take two handfuls of the live coals from the cherubim, and scatter them over the city of Jerusalem.” Then, as I watched, the man went.

3 Now, when the man went in to collect the live coals, the four winged cherubim were standing at attention on the south side of the temple, and a thick cloud suffused the temple’s inner courtyard. 4 Then, Yahweh’s glorious presence ascended over the four cherubim and repositioned itself to the doorway of Yahweh’s temple. The thick cloud suffused the temple, and the brilliant light that came from Yahweh’s glorious presence saturated the temple’s interior courtyard. 5 The noise that the cherubim’s wings generated when they advanced was so loud that people in the outer courtyard of the temple could hear it! It sounded like the speaking voice of the all-powerful God.

6 So, when Yahweh commanded the man who wore the linen clothing to procure live coals from among the whirling array of gyroscopic wheels, from among the winged cherubim, the man went and stood at attention beside one of the four wheels. 7 Then the winged cherubim beside whose wheel the man stood reached out his hand, moving it toward the fire that burned among the four cherubim. He picked up some of the live coals and put them into the two open hands of the man who wore the linen clothing. The man took them and left. 8 Now, it appeared that each cherubim possessed what resembled human hands underneath its four wings.

9 So I continued to watch. Once again, I noticed the four gyroscopic wheels that moved beside the winged cherubim. Each cherubim possessed a single gyroscopic wheel beside it. The wheels themselves appeared to glisten like the gleam of a fine topaz. 10 As for their appearance, all four wheels were identical: Each one resembled a gyroscope, made of a single wheel intersecting another wheel at a right angle. 11 Whenever they advanced, the gyroscopic wheels never moved in a circuitous manner. Instead, they always advanced straight forward in one of the four cardinal directions, corresponding to the direction that each of the faces of the four-faced cherubim looked. 12 The entirety of each cherubim—their bodies, their backs, their hands, their wings, and all four gyroscopic wheels—was completely covered with eyes. 13 I heard someone name the cherubim’s wheels “the whirling array of gyroscopic wheels.” 14 Now, each winged creature possessed four faces—first, a cherub’s face; then a human face; third, a lion’s face; and fourth, an eagle’s face.

15 Then the four cherubim ascended. (These were the same animate creatures that I had previously seen beside the Kebar Canal.) 16 When the winged cherubim advanced, their gyroscopic wheels advanced beside them. Similarly, when the winged cherubim extended their four wings in order to ascend from the ground—never turning about as they went—so also did their gyroscopic wheels remain beside them. 17 Whenever the cherubim stopped moving, their wheels also stopped. And whenever the creatures ascended, so too did their wheels ascend alongside them. This was because the gyroscopic wheels contained the creatures’ breath that gave them life.

18 Then, the brilliant light of Yahweh’s glorious presence advanced away from the doorway of Yahweh’s temple and halted above the winged cherubim. 19 Before my very eyes, the winged cherubim extended their four wings and ascended from the ground—their wheels ascending beside them as they advanced. Then the procession of Yahweh and the four cherubim paused at the doorway of the eastern gated entrance to Yahweh’s temple, and the brilliant and glorious presence of the very God of Israel hovered above the winged cherubim.

20 (Now, these were the same animate creatures that I had seen advancing underneath the God of Israel beside the Kebar Canal. I recognized them as the angelic beings that people call cherubim. 21 Yes, four—each of the cherubim possessed four faces and four wings, and underneath each of their wings, they possessed what resembled human hands. 22 As for the appearance of their faces—they looked as they did when I saw them alongside the Kebar Canal. Each of them advanced forward in the direction of one of their four faces—either north, south, east, or west.)

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