Zechariah 5

1 Then I turned and lifted my eyes, and I saw, behold, a flying scroll!

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

2 The angel said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, 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 said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land. For every thief will be cut off according to what it says on the one side, and everyone who swears a false oath will be cut off according to what it says on the other side.

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—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—so it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one that swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and consume its timber 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 went out and said to me, “Raise your eyes and see what is coming!”

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 I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket containing an ephah that is coming. This is their iniquity in the whole 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 Then a lead covering was lifted off the basket and there was a woman under it sitting in it!

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

8 The angel said, “This is Wickedness!” He threw her back inside the basket, and he threw 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 I lifted my eyes and saw two women coming toward me, and wind was in their wings—for they had wings like a stork's wings. They lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

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 So I said to the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

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

11 He said to me, “To build a temple in the land of Shinar for it, so that when the temple is ready, the basket will be set there on its prepared base.”

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.