CHAPTER 5
“What
do you
see?”
asked the angel.
“I
see
a flying
scroll,”
I replied,
“twenty
cubits
long
and ten
cubits
wide.”
Then he told
me,
“This
is the curse
that is going out
over
the face
of all
the land,
for
according to
one side of the scroll,
every
thief
will be removed;
and according to
the other side,
everyone
who swears falsely
will be removed.
I will send it out,
declares
the LORD
of Hosts,
and it will enter
the house
of the thief
and the house
of him who swears
falsely
by My name.
It will remain
inside
his house
and destroy it,
down to
its timbers
and its stones.”
Then the angel
who was speaking
with me came forward
and told
me,
“Now
lift up
your eyes
and see
what
is approaching.”
“What
is it?”
I asked.
And he replied,
“It is
a measuring basket
that is approaching.”
Then he continued,
“This
is their iniquity
in all
the land.”
“This
is Wickedness,”
he said.
And he shoved her down
into
the basket,
pushing down
the lead
cover
over
its opening.
Then I lifted
up my eyes
and saw
two
women
approaching,
with the wind
in their wings.
Their
wings
were like those
of a stork,
and they lifted up
the basket
between
heaven
and
earth.
“To build
a house
for it
in the land
of Shinar,”
he told me.
“And when it is ready,
the basket will be set
there
on
its pedestal.”