Zechariah 5

Sinners Will Be Separated from the LORD’s People

1I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

2The angel asked me, “What do you see?” “I see a flying scroll,” I answered. “It’s 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”

3Then he said to me, “This is a curse that will go out all over the earth. The one side of the scroll says that every thief will be forced away. The other side of the scroll says that everyone who takes an oath will be forced away.

Wickedness Will Be Removed from the Land

4I will send out a curse, declares the Lord of Armies, and it will enter the houses of thieves and the houses of those who take oaths in my name. It will stay in their houses and destroy the timber and stone.”

5The angel who was speaking with me came forward. He said, “Look up, and see what’s coming.”

6“What is it?” I asked. “A basket is coming,” he said. Then he added, “This is what the people’s sins look like all over the earth.”

7A lead cover ⌞on the basket⌟ was raised, and a woman was sitting in the basket.

8The angel said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and forced the lead cover down on top of it.

9I looked up and saw two women coming forward with wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork. They carried the basket into the sky.

10I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

11He answered me, “They are going to build a house for it in Shinar [Babylonia]. When the house is ready, they will set the basket there on a stand.”