Prophetia Zachariae, 5

1. et conversus sum et levavi oculos meos et vidi et ecce volumen volans

1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.

2. et dixit ad me quid tu vides et dixi ego video volumen volans longitudo ejus viginti cubitorum et latitudo ejus decem cubitorum

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. et dixit ad me hæc est maledictio quæ egreditur super faciem omnis terræ quia omnis fur sicut ibi scriptum est judicabitur et omnis jurans ex hoc similiter judicabitur

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. educam illud dicit Dominus exercituum et veniet ad domum furis et ad domum jurantis in nomine meo mendaciter et commorabitur in medio domus ejus et consumet eam et ligna ejus et lapides ejus

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. et egressus est angelus qui loquebatur in me et dixit ad me leva oculos tuos et vide quid est hoc quod egreditur

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. et dixi quidnam est et ait hæc est amphora egrediens et dixit hæc est oculus eorum in universa terra

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. et ecce talentum plumbi portabatur et ecce mulier una sedens in medio amphoræ

7. And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting in the midst of the vessel.

8. et dixit hæc est impietas et projecit eam in medio amphoræ et misit massam plumbeam in os ejus

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. et levavi oculos meos et vidi et ecce duæ mulieres egredientes et spiritus in alis earum et habebant alas quasi alas milvi et levaverunt amphoram inter terram et cælum

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. et dixi ad angelum qui loquebatur in me quo istæ deferunt amphoram

10. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry the vessel?

11. et dixit ad me ut ædificetur ei domus in terra Sennaar et stabiliatur et ponatur ibi super basem suam

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.