Zechariah 5

Lexham English Bible

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

5 I looked up again,^[a] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! ² And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”^{[b] 3} And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished^[c] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. ⁴ ‘I have sent it out,’ declares^[d] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name,^[e] and it will spend the night in that^[f] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

⁵ And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up!^[g] See what this is going out.” ⁶ And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket^[h] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity^[i] throughout all the earth. ⁷ And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.^{[j] 8} And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,^[k] and threw the lead cover on top of it.^{[l] 9} And I looked up^[m] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket^[n] between the earth and the sky.^{[o] 10} And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”^{[p] 11} And he said to me, “To build for it a house^[q] in the land of Shinar,^[r] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”