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Sixth Vision: The Flying Scroll

Again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.(A) And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land, for everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who has sworn falsely,[a] as is forbidden on the other side, has gone unpunished.(B) I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”(C)

Seventh Vision: The Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is coming out.” I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket[b] coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity[c] in the whole land.” Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket![d] And he said, “This is Wickedness.” So he thrust her back into the basket[e] and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth.(D) 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[f] between earth and sky. 10 Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[g] 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.”(E)

Footnotes

  1. 5.3 The word falsely added from verse 4
  2. 5.6 Heb ephah
  3. 5.6 Gk Compare Syr: Heb their eye
  4. 5.7 Heb ephah
  5. 5.8 Heb ephah
  6. 5.9 Heb ephah
  7. 5.10 Heb ephah

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

I looked up again,[a] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! 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] 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. ‘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

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.” 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. And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[j] 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] 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)