Zechariah 5

¹ Again raising my eyes, I had a vision. There was a flying scrol .

² The angel who was talking to me said, 'What do you see?' I replied, 'I see a flying scroll; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.'

³ He then said to me, 'This is God's curse sweeping across the face of the whole country; for, accordingto what it says on one side, every thief wil be banished and, according to what it says on the other, everyonewho commits perjury in my name wil be banished from it.

⁴ I am going to release it -- Yahweh Sabaoth declares -- for it to enter the house of the thief and ofanyone who commits perjury in my name, for it to settle deep within his house and consume it, timber, stone andal .'

⁵ The angel who was talking to me appeared and said to me, 'Raise your eyes, and see what this is,going along.'

⁶ I said, 'What is it?' He said, 'It is a bushel measure going along.' He went on, 'This is their guiltthroughout the country.'

⁷ At this, a disc of lead was raised, and I saw a woman sitting inside the barrel.

⁸ He said, 'This is Wickedness.' And he rammed her back into the barrel and jammed its mouth shut withthe mass of lead.

⁹ I raised my eyes, and there were two women appearing. The wind caught their wings -- they had wingslike a stork's; they raised the barrel midway between earth and heaven.

¹⁰ I then said to the angel who was talking to me, 'Where are they taking the barrel?'

¹¹ He replied, 'To build a temple for it in the land of Shinar and make a pedestal on which to put it.'