³² Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.

¹⁶ After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

¹⁴ But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the Lord even angrier with Israel.

¹⁶ as they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

⁶ “What is it?” I asked.

He replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain,^[a] and it’s filled with the sins^[b] of everyone throughout the land.”

⁷ Then the heavy lead cover was lifted off the basket, and there was a woman sitting inside it. ⁸ The angel said, “The woman’s name is Wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.

⁹ Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.

¹⁰ “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel.

¹¹ He replied, “To the land of Babylonia,^[c] where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket there on its pedestal.”