Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

¹ ⌞I looked up again⌟,¹ and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll!

1. Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”

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.”¹

1. That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet

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 unpunished¹ according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it.

1. Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”

⁴ ‘I have sent it out,’ ⌞declares⌟¹ 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⌟,² and it will spend the night in that³ house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’ ”

1. Literally “declaration of”
2. Literally “by my name to lie”
3. Hebrew “his”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

⁵ And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “⌞Please look up⌟!¹ See what this is going out.”

1. Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”

⁶ And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket¹ going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity² throughout all the earth.

1. Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain
2. Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”

⁷ And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.¹

1. Or “ephah,” a measure of grain

⁸ And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,¹ and threw the lead cover on top of it.²

1. Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
2. That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”

⁹ And I ⌞looked up⌟¹ 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 basket² between the earth and the sky.³

1. Literally “lifted up my eyes”
2. Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
3. Or “heaven”

¹⁰ And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”¹

1. Or “ephah,” a measure of grain

¹¹ And he said to me, “To build for it a house¹ in the land of Shinar,² and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”

1. Or “temple”
2. That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)