Zechariah, 5

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

1. Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

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 do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."

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

3. Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall be cut off henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely shall be cut off henceforth according to it.

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

4. I will send it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and stones."

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

5. Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth."

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

6. And I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah that goes forth." And he said, "This is their iniquity in all the land."

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

7. And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!

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

8. And he said, "This is Wickedness." And he thrust her back into the ephah, and thrust down the leaden weight upon its mouth.

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

9. Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

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

10. Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"

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

11. He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the ephah down there on its base."