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Zechariah 5
International Standard Version

The Vision of the Flying Scroll

5 Then I looked up and saw a flying scroll! 2 And the angel[a] asked me, “What do you see?”

I answered him, “I’m looking at a flying scroll. It’s 20 cubits[b] long and ten cubits[c] wide.”

3 He responded to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the surface of the whole earth, because, according to this side of the scroll,[d] all thieves will be ejected, and according to the other side of the scroll,[e] all liars will be ejected.”

4 “I am bringing this about,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies. “The curse[f] will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who lies in my name. The curse[g] will remain in his house until that house[h] has been completely destroyed, right down to its timber and stones.”

The Vision of the Basket

5 Then the angel who had been talking with me stepped forward and told me, “Please look up and see what’s going out.”

6 So I asked, “What is it?”[i]

He replied, “This is a basket[j] making its appearance.” He also said, “This is what it appears to be in[k] the entire land.”

The Vision of the Woman in the Basket

7 Look, a round lead cover was being lifted, and there was one woman seated inside the basket! 8 And the angel[l] said, “This is evil!” So he shoved her back into the basket and snapped the round, lead cover over the opening.

The Vision of the Two Winged Women

9 Then I looked up to see two women coming forward with the wind filling their wings. (They had wings like those of a stork.) They took up the basket, holding it between the earth and sky.

10 So I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

11 He answered me, “To the land of Shinar,[m] so they can build a temple to the woman in the basket.[n] Then when its preparations are complete, the basket[o] will be set there in its place.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 Lit. he
  2. Zechariah 5:2 I.e. about 30 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  3. Zechariah 5:2 I.e. about fifteen feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  4. Zechariah 5:3 The Heb. lacks side of the scroll
  5. Zechariah 5:3 The Heb. lacks side of the scroll
  6. Zechariah 5:4 Lit. it
  7. Zechariah 5:4 Lit. It
  8. Zechariah 5:4 Lit. it
  9. Zechariah 5:6 Lit. is she
  10. Zechariah 5:6 Lit. ephah; i.e. a measure of dry grain about 20 dry quarts in capacity; and so throughout the chapter
  11. Zechariah 5:6 Lit. is the eyes in
  12. Zechariah 5:8 Lit. he
  13. Zechariah 5:11 I.e. the Babylon area
  14. Zechariah 5:11 Lit. to her
  15. Zechariah 5:11 Lit. complete, it
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Zechariah 5
Lexham English Bible

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

5 I looked up again,[a] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! 2 And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”[b] 3 And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished[c] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. 4 ‘I have sent it out,’ declares[d] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name,[e] and it will spend the night in that[f] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

5 And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up![g] See what this is going out.” 6 And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket[h] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity[i] throughout all the earth. 7 And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[j] 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,[k] and threw the lead cover on top of it.[l] 9 And I looked up[m] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket[n] between the earth and the sky.[o] 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[p] 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house[q] in the land of Shinar,[r] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:1 Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”
  2. Zechariah 5:2 That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet
  3. Zechariah 5:3 Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”
  4. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “declaration of”
  5. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “by my name to lie”
  6. Zechariah 5:4 Hebrew “his”
  7. Zechariah 5:5 Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”
  8. Zechariah 5:6 Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain
  9. Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”
  10. Zechariah 5:7 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  11. Zechariah 5:8 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  12. Zechariah 5:8 That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”
  13. Zechariah 5:9 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
  14. Zechariah 5:9 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  15. Zechariah 5:9 Or “heaven”
  16. Zechariah 5:10 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  17. Zechariah 5:11 Or “temple”
  18. Zechariah 5:11 That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)
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