Книга пророка Захарии 5
1 И обратихся и возведох очи мои и видех, и се, серп летящь.
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.
2 И рече ко мне: что ты видиши? И рех: аз вижду серп летящь, в долготу лактей двадесять и в широту десяти лактей.
And he said to me, What see you? And I said, I see a flying sickle, of the length of twenty cubits, and of the breadth of ten cubits.
3 И рече ко мне: сия клятва исходящая на лице всея земли: зане всяк тать от сего даже до смерти отмщен будет, и всяк кленыйся во лжу от сего до смерти отмстится.
And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.
4 И изнесу его, глаголет Господь Вседержитель, и внидет в дом татя и в дом кленущагося именем Моим во лжу, и вселится посреде дому его, и скончает его и древа его и камение его.
And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.
5 И изыде Ангел глаголяй во мне и рече ко мне: воззри очима твоима и виждь исходящее сие. И рех:
And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up your eyes, and see this that goes forth.
6 что есть? И рече: сия мера исходящая. И рече: сия неправда их по всей земли.
And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the measure that goes forth. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the earth.
7 И се, талант оловян вземляйся, и се, жена едина седяше посреде меры.
And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.
8 И рече: сия есть беззаконие. И верже ю в средину меры и вверже камень оловяный во уста ея.
And he said, This is iniquity. And he cast it into the midst of the measure, and cast the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
9 И возведох очи мои и видех, и се, две жены исходящыя, и дух в крилех их, и те имяху крила, яко криле вдодовы: и взяша меру между землею и между небом.
And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.
10 И рех ко Ангелу глаголющему во мне: камо сия относят меру?
And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?
11 И рече ко мне: создати ей храмину в земли Вавилонстей и уготовати, и положат ю тамо на уготование свое.
And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Babylon, and to prepare [a place for it]; and they shall set it there on its own base.
