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Visión del rollo escrito

Tuve otra visión. Vi un rollo escrito, que volaba. El ángel me preguntó: «¿Qué ves?» Le contesté: «Veo un rollo escrito, que vuela; mide nueve metros de largo por cuatro metros y medio de ancho.»

Me dijo entonces: «Ahí está escrita la maldición que alcanza a todo el país. Según lo escrito por ambos lados, nadie que robe o que jure en falso puede quedar sin castigo. El Señor todopoderoso afirma: “Yo envío esta maldición para que entre en casa del que roba y en casa del que jura en falso por mi nombre. Y la maldición permanecerá allí hasta que no queden ni vigas ni piedras.”»

Visión de la medida y la mujer

Luego salió el ángel que hablaba conmigo, y me dijo: «¡Fíjate en eso que aparece ahora!» Le pregunté: «¿Qué es eso?» Él me contestó: «Es una medida. Es la medida del pecado de los que viven en el país.»

La medida estaba cubierta con una tapa de plomo. Y fue levantada la tapa, y había una mujer sentada dentro de la medida. Me dijo el ángel: «Esa mujer es la maldad.» Y la empujó adentro de la medida, y la cerró con la tapa de plomo.

Miré otra vez, y vi aparecer dos mujeres. Tenían alas, y el viento las impulsaba. Eran alas como de cigüeña, y llevaban la medida por los aires.

10 Pregunté entonces al ángel que hablaba conmigo: «¿A dónde llevan esa medida?» 11 Y él me contestó: «Van a construirle un templo en Babilonia. Cuando ya esté terminado el templo, la instalarán allí, sobre un pedestal.»

Vision of the Flying Scroll

Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying (A)scroll.

And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”

Then he said to me, “This is the (B)curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”

“I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts;
“It shall enter the house of the (C)thief
And the house of (D)the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house
And consume (E)it, with its timber and stones.”

Vision of the Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”

So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a [a]basket that is going forth.”

He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead [b]cover over its mouth. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a (F)stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

10 So I said to the (G)angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”

11 And he said to me, “To (H)build a house for it in (I)the land of [c]Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:6 Heb. ephah, a measuring container, and so elsewhere
  2. Zechariah 5:8 Lit. stone
  3. Zechariah 5:11 Babylon

The Flying Scroll

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.(A)

He asked me, “What do you see?”(B)

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[a]

And he said to me, “This is the curse(C) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief(D) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely(E) will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely(F) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.(G)’”

The Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.(H)” And he added, “This is the iniquity[b] of the people throughout the land.”

Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.(I)

Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,(J) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

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

11 He replied, “To the country of Babylonia[c](K) to build a house(L) for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”(M)

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 That is, about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide or about 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide
  2. Zechariah 5:6 Or appearance
  3. Zechariah 5:11 Hebrew Shinar