⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

⁶ And when he gave orders to the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the winged ones, then he went in and took his place at the side of a wheel.

⁷ And stretching out his hand to the fire which was between the winged ones, he took some of it and went out.

⁸ And I saw the form of a man's hands among the winged ones under their wings.

¹⁶ To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,