Thematic Bible

Zechariah 5:1

{I looked up again}, and I saw, and look!--a flying scroll!

Zechariah 5:2

And he asked me, "What [are] you seeing?" And I said, "I [am] seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide."

Zechariah 5:3

And he said to me, "This [is] the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and [likewise] everyone who swears [falsely] has gone unpunished according to it.

Zechariah 5:4

'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"

Zechariah 5:5

And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, "{Please look up}! See what this [is] going out."
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Zechariah 5:6

And I asked, "What [is] it?" And he said, "This [is] a basket going out. And he said, "This [is] their iniquity throughout all the earth.

Zechariah 5:7

And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman [was] sitting inside the basket.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, "This [is] Wickedness!" And he thrust her [back down] into the basket, and threw the lead cover on top of it.

Zechariah 5:9

And I {looked up} and saw, and look!--two women coming forward, and [the] wind [was] in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.

Zechariah 5:10

And I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where [are] they taking the basket?"

Zechariah 5:11

And he said to me, "To build for it a house in the land of Shinar, and [when] it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site."