Zechariah 5
Modern English Version
The Vision of the Flying Scroll
5 Then I turned and lifted up my eyes and saw a flying scroll.
2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
And I responded, “I see a flying scroll with its length as twenty cubits and its width as ten cubits.”[a]
3 He said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of all the land. Everyone who steals will be purged according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be purged according to the writing on the other side. 4 I will send it out, says the Lord of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain in his house and consume it, with its timber and stones.”
The Vision of the Woman in the Basket
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came out, saying, “Now lift up your eyes and see what this is that is going forth.”
6 And I asked, “What is it?”
He said, “This is the ephah basket going forth. This represents their iniquity throughout all the land.”
7 The lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah basket. 8 And he said, “This is wickedness.” And he threw her back into the basket and then thrust back the lead stone over its opening.
9 Then I lifted my eyes and saw coming forward two women. There was wind in their wings, and the wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up and carried the ephah basket between heaven and earth.
10 Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”
11 He responded, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. And when the house is established, the basket will be set there on a pedestal.”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 5:2 About 30 feet long and 15 feet wide, or 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide.
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
- Zechariah 5:1 Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”
- Zechariah 5:2 That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet
- Zechariah 5:3 Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”
- Zechariah 5:4 Literally “declaration of”
- Zechariah 5:4 Literally “by my name to lie”
- Zechariah 5:4 Hebrew “his”
- Zechariah 5:5 Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”
- Zechariah 5:6 Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain
- Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”
- Zechariah 5:7 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
- Zechariah 5:8 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
- Zechariah 5:8 That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”
- Zechariah 5:9 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
- Zechariah 5:9 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
- Zechariah 5:9 Or “heaven”
- Zechariah 5:10 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
- Zechariah 5:11 Or “temple”
- Zechariah 5:11 That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)
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