Zechariah 5

1Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

2He said to me, |What do you see?| I answered, |I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.|

3Then he said to me, |This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

4I will cause it to go out,| says Yahweh of Armies, |and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.|

5Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, |Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing.|

6I said, |What is it?| He said, |This is the ephah basket that is appearing.| He said moreover, |This is their appearance in all the land

7(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket.|

8He said, |This is Wickedness;| and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

9Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

10Then I said to the angel who talked with me, |Where are these carrying the ephah basket?|

11He said to me, |To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.|