Zechariah 5

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

5I looked up again,^a and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! ²And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”^{b 3}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. ⁴‘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

⁵And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up!^g See what this is going out.” ⁶And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket^h going out. And he said, “This is their iniquityⁱ throughout all the earth. ⁷And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.^{j 8}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 9}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 basketⁿ 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.”