撒迦利亚书 5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
飞行的书卷
5 我又举目观看，见有书卷在飞。 2 天使问我：“你看见什么？”我说：“我看见飞行的书卷，长十米，宽五米。” 3 他说：“这是临到全天下的咒诅，因为书卷一面写着‘凡偷盗的必被清除’，另一面写着‘凡起假誓的必被清除’。” 4 万军之耶和华说：“我要使这咒诅进入盗贼和奉我的名起假誓者的家，住在他们家里，毁灭他们的家，不留一木一石。”
量器中的女子
5 与我说话的天使又来对我说：“你举目观看，看看出现了什么？” 6 我问道：“这是什么？”他说：“这是一个量器。”接着他又说：“里面盛着世人的罪。” 7 只见量器的铅盖打开了，里面坐着一个女子。 8 天使说：“这是罪恶。”他把女子推回量器中，盖上铅盖。 9 我又举目观看，见有两个女子展翅飞来，她们的翅膀像鹳鸟的翅膀。她们把量器提到空中。 10 我问与我说话的天使：“她们要把量器带到哪里？” 11 他说：“要带到示拿[a]，在那里为它建造房屋，建好后就把它安置在底座上。”
Footnotes
- 5:11 “示拿”巴比伦的别名。
Zechariah 5
New Catholic Bible
The People of the Holy City[a]
Chapter 5
Vision of the Scroll that Flies.[b] 1 Again I looked up, and I beheld a flying scroll. 2 The angel said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. It is twenty cubits in length and ten cubits in width.”
3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the entire earth. According to the writing on one side, every thief will be swept away, and according to the writing on the other side, everyone who commits perjury in my name will be banished. 4 I have sent it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who commits perjury in my name. It will lodge inside such a house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
Vision of the Bushel Coming Forth.[c] 5 Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said, “Raise your eyes and see what this is that is coming forth.” 6 I asked, “What is it?” The angel replied, “This is a bushel basket coming forth.” And he added, “This is their guilt throughout the land.”
7 Then a leaden cover was lifted up, and there was a woman sitting inside the bushel basket. 8 “This is Wickedness,” the angel said. He immediately pushed her back into the basket and pressed the leaden cover into the opening.
9 Then I raised my eyes and beheld two women coming forward, with the wind in their wings which were like those of a stork. As they lifted up the bushel basket into the air, 10 I asked the angel who had been conversing with me, “Where are they taking the bushel basket?” 11 He replied, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. When the house is completed, they will set down the bushel basket on a pedestal designed for it.”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 5:1 It is not enough to restore political and religious buildings and structures; the essential thing is to implement the moral and spiritual conditions that are needed for a new community. These final three visions proclaim that the Lord intends to sanctify his people and make them truly faithful to their mission of salvation.
- Zechariah 5:1 A scroll was a strip of parchment that was written on and then rolled up. The ancients thought that a prediction written on a scroll would certainly be fulfilled.
- Zechariah 5:5 The woman seen in a dream personifies the evil which God will remove from his people when he comes to save them.
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