(The cherubim appeared to have the form<n id="1" /> of human hands under their wings.)p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

I will make you pass under<n id="1" /> the shepherd&#8217;s staff,<n id="2" /> and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

They had human hands<n id="1" /> under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine.<n id="1" /> She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians<n id="2" /> &#8211; warriors<n id="3" />

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.p>

There was a row of masonry around each of the four courts, and places for boiling offerings were made under the rows all around.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed<n id="1" /> that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.

Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering<n id="1" /> its body.

<p class="bodytext">So he said to me, &#8220;All right then, I will substitute cow&#8217;s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.&#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.

<p class="poetry">It sprouted and became a vine,p> <p class="poetry">spreading low to the ground;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its branches turning toward him,<n id="2" /> its roots were under itself.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.p>

<p class="poetry">Take the choice bone of the flock,p> <p class="poetry">heap up bones under it;p> <p class="poetry">boil rapidly,p> <p class="poetry">and boil its bones in it.p>

<p class="poetry">All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,p> <p class="poetry">in its shade all the great<n id="1" /> nations lived.p>

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak,<n id="1" /> the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said to the man dressed in linen, &#8220;Go between the wheelwork<n id="2" /> underneath the cherubim.<n id="3" /> Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.&#8221; He went as I watched.p>

<p class="poetry">I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar.p> <p class="poetry">Every bird will live under it;p> <p class="poetry">Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.p>

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times,<n id="1" /> who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones,<n id="2" /> when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.p>