LEB ZEC Chapter 5

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

5 I looked up again,[fn] 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.”[fn] 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[fn] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. 4 ‘I have sent it out,’ declares[fn] 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,[fn] and it will spend the night in that[fn] 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![fn] See what this is going out.” 6 And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket[fn] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity[fn] throughout all the earth. 7 And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[fn] 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,[fn] and threw the lead cover on top of it.[fn] 9 And I looked up[fn] 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[fn] between the earth and the sky.[fn] 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[fn] 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house[fn] in the land of Shinar,[fn] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”