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Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

I looked up again,[a] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”[b] And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished[c] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. ‘I have sent it out,’ declares[d] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name,[e] and it will spend the night in that[f] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up![g] See what this is going out.” And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket[h] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity[i] throughout all the earth. And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[j] And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,[k] and threw the lead cover on top of it.[l] And I looked up[m] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket[n] between the earth and the sky.[o] 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[p] 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house[q] in the land of Shinar,[r] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:1 Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”
  2. Zechariah 5:2 That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet
  3. Zechariah 5:3 Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”
  4. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “declaration of”
  5. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “by my name to lie”
  6. Zechariah 5:4 Hebrew “his”
  7. Zechariah 5:5 Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”
  8. Zechariah 5:6 Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain
  9. Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”
  10. Zechariah 5:7 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  11. Zechariah 5:8 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  12. Zechariah 5:8 That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”
  13. Zechariah 5:9 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
  14. Zechariah 5:9 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  15. Zechariah 5:9 Or “heaven”
  16. Zechariah 5:10 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  17. Zechariah 5:11 Or “temple”
  18. Zechariah 5:11 That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)

The Flying Scroll

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.(A)

He asked me, “What do you see?”(B)

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[a]

And he said to me, “This is the curse(C) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief(D) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely(E) will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely(F) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.(G)’”

The Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.(H)” And he added, “This is the iniquity[b] of the people throughout the land.”

Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.(I)

Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,(J) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

10 “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.

11 He replied, “To the country of Babylonia[c](K) to build a house(L) for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”(M)

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 That is, about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide or about 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide
  2. Zechariah 5:6 Or appearance
  3. Zechariah 5:11 Hebrew Shinar