Zechariah 5

1 Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

2 “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.

3 Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

6 “What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.

7 And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.

8 “This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.

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

And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?

11 “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.