Zechariah 5:5-11

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Seventh Vision: The Woman in a Basket

⁵ Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is coming out.” ⁶ I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket^[a] coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity^[b] in the whole land.” ⁷ Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!^{[c] 8} And he said, “This is Wickedness.” So he thrust her back into the basket^[d] and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth.^{(A) 9} Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket^[e] between earth and sky. ¹⁰ Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”^{[f] 11} He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it, and when this is prepared, they will set it down there on its base.”^(B)