Zechariah 5
1 I lifted my eyes again and looked: there was a flying scroll.
2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
3 He said to me, “This is the curse going out over the whole land. For every thief, as written on one side of it, has gone unpunished; and everyone who swears falsely, as written on the other side of it, has gone unpunished.
4 “I have sent it out,” declares the LORD of Hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it, along with its timber and stones.”
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this thing is that is going out.”
6 I asked, “What is it?” He answered, “It is the measuring basket that is going out.” Then he added, “This is their appearance throughout the whole land.”
7 And look: a lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
8 He said, “This is Wickedness.” Then he threw her into the basket and dropped the lead weight over its opening.
9 I lifted my eyes and looked: there were two women coming out, with wind in their wings—they had wings like the wings of a stork—and they lifted the basket between earth and sky.
10 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”
11 He answered me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. When it is ready, it will be set there on its base.”
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