Zechariah 5:5-11

Christian Standard Bible

Seventh Vision: Woman in the Basket

⁵ Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Look up and see what this is that is approaching.”

⁶ So I asked, “What is it?”

He responded, “It’s a measuring basket^[a] that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity^[b] in all the land.” ⁷ Then a lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman^(A) sitting inside the basket.^{(B) 8} “This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening. ⁹ Then I looked up and saw two women approaching with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork,^(C) and they lifted up the basket between earth and sky.

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

¹¹ “To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,”^(D) he told me. “When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its pedestal.”