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Sabato, 27 aprile 2024 - Santa Zita ( Letture di oggi)

Zechariah 5


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NEW JERUSALEMDOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Again raising my eyes, I had a vision. There was a flying scrol .1 And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.
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.'2 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume flying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
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.3 And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by 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 .'4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
5 The angel who was talking to me appeared and said to me, 'Raise your eyes, and see what this is,going along.'5 And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.
6 I said, 'What is it?' He said, 'It is a bushel measure going along.' He went on, 'This is their guiltthroughout the country.'6 And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.
7 At this, a disc of lead was raised, and I saw a woman sitting inside the barrel.7 And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting in the midst of the vessel.
8 He said, 'This is Wickedness.' And he rammed her back into the barrel and jammed its mouth shut withthe mass of lead.8 And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
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.9 And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two women, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven.
10 I then said to the angel who was talking to me, 'Where are they taking the barrel?'10 And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry the vessel?
11 He replied, 'To build a temple for it in the land of Shinar and make a pedestal on which to put it.'11 And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land of Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own basis.