Zechariah 5:5-11

Common English Bible

“Look up and see what’s approaching.”
⁶ I said, “What’s this?”
He said, “This is the basket^[a] that is going out.
        This is how it appears^[b] throughout the entire land.”^[c]
7 Then a lead cover was lifted,
showing a woman sitting in the middle of the basket.
⁸     He said, “This is wickedness.”
        He shoved her back into the basket,
        and he put the lead stone over its opening.
⁹ I looked up again and saw two women going out.
        There was a wind in their wings;
        their wings were like the wings of a stork.
        They carried the basket between the earth and the sky.
¹⁰ I said to the messenger speaking with me,
    “Where are they taking the basket?”
¹¹ He said to me,
    “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar.
    It will be firmly placed there on its base.”