Zechariah 5

¹ Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. ² He said to me, “ What do you see? ”

³ Then he said to me, “ This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. ⁴ I will cause it to go out, ” says the LORD of Armies, “ and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

⁵ Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “ Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing.”

⁶ I said, “ What is it? ”

⁷ and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up — and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.” ⁸ He said, “ This is Wickedness; ” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth.

⁹ Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women; and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. ¹⁰ Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “ Where are these carrying the ephah basket? ”

¹¹ He said to me, “ To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”