飛行的書卷

我又舉目觀看,見有書卷在飛。 天使問我:「你看見什麼?」我說:「我看見飛行的書卷,長十米,寬五米。」 他說:「這是臨到全天下的咒詛,因為書卷一面寫著『凡偷盜的必被清除』,另一面寫著『凡起假誓的必被清除』。」 萬軍之耶和華說:「我要使這咒詛進入盜賊和奉我的名起假誓者的家,住在他們家裡,毀滅他們的家,不留一木一石。」

量器中的女子

與我說話的天使又來對我說:「你舉目觀看,看看出現了什麼?」 我問道:「這是什麼?」他說:「這是一個量器。」接著他又說:「裡面盛著世人的罪。」 只見量器的鉛蓋打開了,裡面坐著一個女子。 天使說:「這是罪惡。」他把女子推回量器中,蓋上鉛蓋。 我又舉目觀看,見有兩個女子展翅飛來,她們的翅膀像鸛鳥的翅膀。她們把量器提到空中。 10 我問與我說話的天使:「她們要把量器帶到哪裡?」 11 他說:「要帶到示拿[a],在那裡為它建造房屋,建好後就把它安置在底座上。」

Footnotes

  1. 5·11 示拿」巴比倫的別名。

Vision of the Flying Scroll

Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying (A)scroll.

And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”

Then he said to me, “This is the (B)curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”

“I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts;
“It shall enter the house of the (C)thief
And the house of (D)the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house
And consume (E)it, with its timber and stones.”

Vision of the Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”

So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a [a]basket that is going forth.”

He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead [b]cover over its mouth. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a (F)stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

10 So I said to the (G)angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”

11 And he said to me, “To (H)build a house for it in (I)the land of [c]Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:6 Heb. ephah, a measuring container, and so elsewhere
  2. Zechariah 5:8 Lit. stone
  3. Zechariah 5:11 Babylon