Zechariah 5

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

Then again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.

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

He said to me, ‘What do you see?’ I answered, ‘I see a flying scroll; twenty cubits long, 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 that goes over the whole land. Every thief will be banished according to the writing on one side and everyone who lies under oath shall be banished according to the writing on the other side.

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 have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in the midst of his house and will consume it with its timber 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.”

Then the messenger who talked with me came forward, and said to me, ‘Look up and see what is now coming.’

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.”

I said. ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘It is a measuring basket, full of the guilt of the land.’

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

A round leaden cover was lifted up, and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the basket.

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

He said, ‘This is Wickedness.’ He thrust her down into the midst of the basket and he pushed the round leaden cover back on its mouth.

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.

Then I looked up and saw two women, and the wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork and they lifted up the basket between them.

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

Then I said to the messenger who talked with me, ‘Where are they taking the basket?’

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.”

He said to me, ‘To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, they will rest the basket there.’