Zechariah 5:5-11

GOD’S WORD Translation

Wickedness Will Be Removed from the Land

⁵ The angel who was speaking with me came forward. He said, “Look up, and see what’s coming.”

⁶ “What is it?” I asked.

“A basket is coming,” he said. Then he added, “This is what the people’s sins look like all over the earth.” ^{[a] 7} A lead cover ⌞on the basket⌟ was raised, and a woman was sitting in the basket. ⁸ The angel said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and forced the lead cover down on top of it.

⁹ I looked up and saw two women coming forward with wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork. They carried the basket into the sky.

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

¹¹ He answered me, “They are going to build a house for it in Shinar [Babylonia]. When the house is ready, they will set the basket there on a stand.”