Zechariah 5:5-11

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Seventh Vision: A Woman in a Basket

⁵ Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me, “Lift up your eyes, now, and see what is going out.”

⁶ So I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “This is the basket^[a] that is going out.”

He also said, “This is their guilt^[b] in all the earth.”

⁷ As I watched, the lead cover was lifted, and I saw that there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

⁸ He said, “This is Wickedness.” Then he pushed her down inside the basket, and he pushed the lead weight onto its opening.

⁹ Then I lifted up my eyes and looked again. There were two women coming toward me! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork. They lifted up the basket between the earth and the heavens.

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

¹¹ He told me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar.^[c] When it is ready, it will be set there on its foundation.”