撒迦利亚书 5

1I looked up again, and I saw a flying scroll.

2“What do you see?” he asked. And I replied, “A flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

3“That,” he explained to me, “is the curse that goes out over the whole land. For everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side [of the scroll], has gone unpunished; and everyone who has sworn [falsely], as is forbidden on the other side of it, has gone unpunished.

4[But] I have sent it forth—declares GOD of Hosts—and [the curse] shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name, and it shall lodge inside their houses and shall consume them to the last timber and stone.”

5Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said, “Now look up and note this other object that is approaching.”

6I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This tub, a measure of capacity. that is approaching—this,” said he, “is their eye in all the land.”

7And behold, a disk of lead was lifted, revealing a female figure seated inside the tub.

8“That,” he said, “is Wickedness”; and, thrusting her back inside the tub, he pressed the leaden weight into the tub’s mouth.

9I looked up again and saw two female figures come soaring with the wind in their wings—they had wings like those of a stork—and carry off the tub between earth and sky.

10“Where are they taking the tub?” I asked the angel who talked with me.

11And he answered, “To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar; [a stand] shall be erected for it, and it shall be set down there upon the stand.”