<p class="bodytext">Then I looked,<n id="1" /> and I saw one wheel<n id="2" /> on the ground<n id="3" /> beside each of the four beings.

<p class="bodytext">When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.<n id="1" />p>

In the middle<n id="1" /> of the living beings was something like<n id="2" /> burning coals of fire<n id="3" /> or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

<p class="bodytext">The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings<n id="1" /> I saw at the Kebar River.

The customer will no longer pay the seller<n id="1" /> while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd<n id="2" /> will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity,<n id="3" /> will fail to preserve his life.p>

In the fire<n id="1" /> were what looked like<n id="2" /> four living beings.<n id="3" /> In their appearance they had human form,<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform,<n id="1" /> glittering awesomely like ice,<n id="2" /> stretched out over their heads.

When the cherubim<n id="1" /> stood still, the wheels<n id="2" /> stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels<n id="3" /> rose up with them, for the spirit<n id="4" /> of the living beings<n id="5" /> was in the wheels.<n id="6" />p>

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals<n id="1" /> will walk<n id="2" /> on its branches.

They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what you must say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die<n id="1" /> by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Wherever the spirit<n id="1" /> would go, they would go,<n id="2" /> and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit<n id="3" /> of the living being was in the wheel.

When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped.<n id="1" /> When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.p>

and the sound of the living beings&#8217; wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you.<n id="1" /> Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,<n id="2" /> and I will bring a sword against you. I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the living creatures<n id="1" /> which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own sons or daughters &#8211; they would save only their own lives.p>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.p>