Zechariah 5 (NET)

Zechariah 5:1¹Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:2²Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:3³The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:4⁴“I will send it out,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:5⁵After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said, “Look, see what is leaving.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:6⁶I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:7⁷Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:8⁸He then said, “This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:9⁹Then I looked again and saw two women going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork), and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:10¹⁰I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Zechariah 5:11¹¹He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s