Zechariah 5

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

And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.

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 seest thou? And I said: I see a volume flying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

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.

And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.

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.”

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.

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 went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.

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 a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.

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

And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting in the midst of the vessel.

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 wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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 I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two women, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven.

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

And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry the vessel?

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: That a house may be built for it in the land of Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own basis.