5 Then the messenger who’d been talking with me came over and said to me, “Look up and see what’s coming now.”

6 “What is it?” I asked.

And he said, “That’s the measuring bin that’s coming.” Then he continued, “That’s their eye[fn] across the whole land.”

7 Then, wow, a lead covering was lifted off and there was a woman sitting inside the measuring bin. 8 He said, “This woman is ‘wickedness’.” Then he pushed her back inside the measuring bin, then quickly pressed the heavy lead cover back over its opening.

9 Then I looked up again and wow, I saw two women with wings like stork’s wings, flying on the wind towards us, and they lifted the measuring bin up into the sky.

10 “Where are they taking the measuring bin?” I asked the messenger who’d been talking with me.

11 “To build a temple for it in Babylonia,” he replied. “And when it’s ready, it’ll be set on a base there.”