wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians ¹  whose native land is Chaldea.

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. ¹ 

Terror ¹  is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

Then I looked, ¹  and I saw one wheel ²  on the ground ³  beside each of the four beings.

Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, ¹  glittering awesomely like ice, ²  stretched out over their heads.

As I watched, I saw ¹  on the platform ²  above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.

He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

“‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

The glory of the Lord came into the temple by way of the gate that faces east.

Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed ¹  women sitting there weeping for Tammuz. ² 

As I watched, I noticed ¹  four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; ²  the wheels gleamed like jasper. ³ 

As I watched, I saw ¹  tendons on them, then muscles appeared, ²  and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath ³  in them.

Then he led me toward the south. I saw ¹  a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet. ¹ 

Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around.