Zechariah 5

Legacy Standard Bible

A Flying Scroll

5 Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, a flying ^(A)scroll. ² And he said to me, “^(B)What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is ^[a]twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.” ³ Then he said to me, “This is the ^(C)curse that is going forth over the face of the whole ^[b]land; surely everyone who ^(D)steals will be ^[c]purged away according to ^[d]the writing on one side, and everyone who ^(E)swears will be ^[e]purged away according to the writing on the other side. ⁴ I will ^(F)make it go forth,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and it will ^(G)enter the house of the ^(H)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and ^(I)consume it with its timber and stones.”

A Woman in an Ephah

⁵ Then ^(J)the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.” ⁶ So I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ^[f](K)ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their ^[g]appearance in all the ^[h]land ⁷ (and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.” ⁸ Then he said, “This is ^(L)Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead weight on its ^[i]opening. ⁹ Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a ^(M)stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. ¹⁰ And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?” ¹¹ Then he said to me, “To build a ^[j]house for her in the land of ^(N)Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”