Закария 5
Священное Писание (Восточный Перевод)
Шестое видение: летящий свиток
5 Я вновь поднял глаза и вижу: передо мною летит свиток.
2 Ангел спросил меня:
– Что ты видишь?
Я ответил:
– Я вижу летящий свиток десяти метров в длину и пяти метров[a] в ширину.
3 Он сказал мне:
– Это проклятие, которое надвигается на всю землю. Как написано на одной стороне, всякий вор будет искоренён, и как написано на другой, будет искоренён всякий, нарушающий клятву. 4 Вечный, Повелитель Сил, возвещает: «Я наведу это проклятие, и оно войдёт в дом вора и в дом того, кто ложно клянётся Моим именем. Оно поселится в его доме и уничтожит его: и дерево его, и камни».
Седьмое видение: женщина в корзине
5 Потом Ангел, говоривший со мной, двинулся вперёд и сказал мне:
– Подними глаза и посмотри, что ты видишь?
6 Я спросил:
– Что это?
Он ответил:
– Это выходит мерная корзина[b], – и добавил: – Она символ того, что происходит по всей стране.[c]
7 Свинцовая крышка поднялась, и вот: в корзине сидит женщина.
8 Он сказал:
– Её зовут Беззаконие, – и бросил её обратно в корзину, и закрыл свинцовой крышкой.
9 Я поднял глаза и вижу: передо мной явились две женщины, и ветер был у них в крыльях. Крылья у них были, как у аиста, и они подняли корзину между небом и землёй.
10 – Куда они несут корзину? – спросил я у Ангела, Который говорил со мной.
11 – В Вавилонию[d], чтобы там построить ей храм. Когда храм будет готов, корзину водрузят там на пьедестал, – ответил Он.
Zechariah 5
Living Bible
5 I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.
2 “What do you see?” he asked.
“A flying scroll!” I replied. “It appears to be about thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide!”
3 “This scroll,” he told me, “represents the words of God’s curse going out over the entire land. It says that all who steal and lie have been judged and sentenced to death.”
4 “I am sending this curse into the home of every thief and everyone who swears falsely by my name,” says the Lord Almighty. “And my curse shall remain upon his home and completely destroy it.”
5 Then the angel left me for a while, but he returned and said, “Look up! Something is traveling through the sky!”
6 “What is it?” I asked.
He replied, “It is a bushel basket filled with the sin prevailing everywhere throughout the land.”
7 Suddenly the heavy lead cover on the basket was lifted off, and I could see a woman sitting inside the basket!
8 He said, “She represents wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and clamped down the heavy lid again.
9 Then I saw two women flying toward us, with wings like those of a stork. And they took the bushel basket and flew off with it, high in the sky.
10 “Where are they taking her?” I asked the angel.
11 He replied, “To Babylon[a] where they will build a temple for the basket, to worship it!”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 5:11 To Babylon (the land of Shinar). By the time of Zechariah, Babylon had become a symbol, the center of world idolatry and wickedness.
Zechariah 5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 5
Fifth Vision: The Flying Scroll. 1 Then I raised my eyes again and saw a flying scroll. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”[a](A) 3 Then he said to me: “This is the curse which is to go forth over the whole land. According to it, every thief and every perjurer[b] will be expelled. 4 I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name.(B) It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.”
Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness. 5 Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Raise your eyes and look. What is this that comes forth?” 6 I said, “What is it?” And he answered, “This is the basket[c] that is coming.” And he said, “This is their guilt in all the land.” 7 Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.[d] 8 He said, “This is Wickedness,” and he thrust her inside the basket, pushing the leaden weight into the opening.
9 Then I raised my eyes and saw two women coming forth with wind under their wings[e]—they had wings like the wings of a stork—and they lifted the basket into the air. 10 I said to the angel who spoke with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” 11 He replied, “To build a temple for it in the land of Shinar.[f] When the temple is constructed, they will set it there on its base.”
Footnotes
- 5:2 Twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide: ca. thirty feet by fifteen feet. These dimensions may represent the ratio of height to width in the exposed portion of a scroll being opened for liturgical reading; at the same time it may symbolize the approach to God’s presence since the entryway to the Temple has the same measurements (1 Kgs 6:3). The scroll itself may represent God’s covenant with the people, insofar as it contains curses against those who break the law.
- 5:3 Thief…perjurer: a pair of miscreants representing all those who disobey God’s covenant (see note on v. 2) and who must therefore be punished according to covenant curses.
- 5:6 Basket: literally, ephah, a dry measure; see note on Is 5:10.
- 5:7 Woman sitting inside the basket: figure representing wickedness or foreign idolatry being transported back to Babylonia (vv. 1–11). Returning exiles were apparently worshiping deities they had learned to accept in Babylonia, and that “wickedness” (v. 8) must be removed.
- 5:9 Two women…wings: composite beings, part human and part animal, similar to the cherubim flanking the holy ark (Ex 25:18–22; 1 Kgs 6:23–28; Ez 10:18–22). Such creatures accompany foreign deities as here, or the biblical God.
- 5:11 Shinar: land of Babylonia; this name for Babylonia is found also in Gn 1:10; 11:2; 14:1; Is 11:11; and Dn 1:2.
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