Zechariah 5

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.”

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 this is that is appearing.”

I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.^a” And he added, “This is the iniquity 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 the lead cover down over its mouth.^b

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,^c and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

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

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