Zechariah 5:5-11
Living Bible
5 Then the angel left me for a while, but he returned and said, “Look up! Something is traveling through the sky!”
6 “What is it?” I asked.
He replied, “It is a bushel basket filled with the sin prevailing everywhere throughout the land.”
7 Suddenly the heavy lead cover on the basket was lifted off, and I could see a woman sitting inside the basket!
8 He said, “She represents wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and clamped down the heavy lid again.
9 Then I saw two women flying toward us, with wings like those of a stork. And they took the bushel basket and flew off with it, high in the sky.
10 “Where are they taking her?” I asked the angel.
11 He replied, “To Babylon[a] where they will build a temple for the basket, to worship it!”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Zechariah 5:11 To Babylon (the land of Shinar). By the time of Zechariah, Babylon had become a symbol, the center of world idolatry and wickedness.
The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.