Zaccharias Propheta 5

1 et conversus sum et levavi oculos meos et vidi et ecce volumen volans

Then again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.

2 et dixit ad me quid tu vides et dixi ego video volumen volans longitudo eius viginti cubitorum et latitudo eius decem cubitorum

He said to me, ‘What do you see?’ I answered, ‘I see a flying scroll; twenty cubits long, ten cubits wide.’

3 et dixit ad me haec est maledictio quae egreditur super faciem omnis terrae quia omnis fur sicut ibi scriptum est iudicabitur et omnis iurans ex hoc similiter iudicabitur

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 educam illud dicit Dominus exercituum et veniet ad domum furis et ad domum iurantis in nomine meo mendaciter et commorabitur in medio domus eius et consumet eam et ligna eius et lapides eius

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 et egressus est angelus qui loquebatur in me et dixit ad me leva oculos tuos et vide quid est hoc quod egreditur

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

6 et dixi quidnam est et ait haec est amphora egrediens et dixit haec est oculus eorum in universa terra

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

7 et ecce talentum plumbi portabatur et ecce mulier una sedens in medio amphorae

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

8 et dixit haec est impietas et proiecit eam in medio amphorae et misit massam plumbeam in os eius

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 et levavi oculos meos et vidi et ecce duae mulieres egredientes et spiritus in alis earum et habebant alas quasi alas milvi et levaverunt amphoram inter terram et caelum

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 et dixi ad angelum qui loquebatur in me quo istae deferunt amphoram

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

11 et dixit ad me ut aedificetur ei domus in terra Sennaar et stabiliatur et ponatur ibi super basem suam

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