Zechariah 5

The Flying Scroll

5I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.ⁿ

²He asked me, “What do you see?”^o

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.^a”

³And he said to me, “This is the curse^p that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief^q will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely^r will be banished. ⁴The 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^s by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.^t’ ”

The Woman in a Basket

⁵Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

⁶I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.^u” And he added, “This is the iniquity^b of the people throughout the land.”

⁷Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! ⁸He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.^v

⁹Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,^w 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.

¹¹He replied, “To the country of Babylonia^cx to build a house^y for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”^z