Zacarías 5
Traducción en lenguaje actual
El libro que volaba
5 Volví a levantar la vista, y ante mis ojos vi volar un libro. 2 El ángel me preguntó:
—¿Qué es lo que ves, Zacarías?
Yo le respondí:
—Veo un libro que vuela. El libro mide diez metros de largo y cinco de ancho.
3 Entonces el ángel me explicó:
—Este libro representa la maldición que pronto caerá sobre toda la tierra. En un lado está escrita la maldición que caerá sobre los ladrones. En el otro lado está la maldición que caerá sobre los mentirosos, esos que usan mi nombre para hacer falsos juramentos. 4 El libro entrará en la casa de los ladrones y de los mentirosos, y allí se quedará hasta destruirlos por completo. El Dios todopoderoso jura que así será.
La maldad
5 Luego, el ángel salió y me dijo:
—Fíjate en lo que acaba de aparecer.
6 —¿De qué se trata? —pregunté.
Y el ángel me explicó:
—Se trata de una medida. Con ella Dios ha medido toda la maldad de este país.
7 La medida tenía una tapa de plomo. El ángel levantó la tapa, y pude ver que allí adentro estaba una mujer sentada. 8 Esa mujer trató de salir, pero el ángel la empujó hacia dentro y volvió a tapar la medida. Entonces me dijo: «Aquí está representada la maldad».
9 Una vez más levanté la mirada, y vi a dos mujeres con alas de cigüeña. Esas mujeres volaron y se llevaron la medida. 10 Yo le pregunté al ángel:
—¿A dónde se llevan la medida?
11 Y el ángel me respondió:
—Se la llevan a Babilonia. En ese país construirán un templo, y sobre el altar pondrán la medida.
Zechariah 5
New International Version
The Flying Scroll
5 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.(A)
2 He asked me, “What do you see?”(B)
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[a]”
3 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. 4 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
5 Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”
6 I asked, “What is it?”
He replied, “It is a basket.(H)” And he added, “This is the iniquity[b] of the people throughout the land.”
7 Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! 8 He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.(I)
9 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,(J) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
10 “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.
11 He replied, “To the country of Babylonia[c](K) to build a house(L) for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”(M)
Footnotes
- Zechariah 5:2 That is, about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide or about 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide
- Zechariah 5:6 Or appearance
- Zechariah 5:11 Hebrew Shinar
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