Zechariah 5:5-11
New King James Version
Vision of the Woman in a Basket
5 Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”
6 So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a [a]basket that is going forth.”
He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: 7 Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; 8 then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead [b]cover over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a (A)stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
10 So I said to the (B)angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”
11 And he said to me, “To (C)build a house for it in (D)the land of [c]Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”
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- Zechariah 5:6 Heb. ephah, a measuring container, and so elsewhere
- Zechariah 5:8 Lit. stone
- Zechariah 5:11 Babylon
Zechariah 5:5-11
Lexham English Bible
Zechariah’s Seventh Vision
5 And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up![a] See what this is going out.” 6 And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket[b] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity[c] throughout all the earth. 7 And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[d] 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,[e] and threw the lead cover on top of it.[f] 9 And I looked up[g] 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[h] between the earth and the sky.[i] 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[j] 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house[k] in the land of Shinar,[l] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”
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- 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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