Zechariah 5
11 verses
The fifth vision shows Zechariah a flying scroll of enormous proportions inscribed with curses against thieves and those who swear falsely, representing the operative force of the Lord's judgment against covenant violations within the community. The scroll flies throughout the land, entering the house of the thief and the house of the perjurer to consume both wood and stone, suggesting that divine judgment penetrates private spaces and destroys the very foundations of those who violate covenant obligations. This vision emphasizes that the restored community's holiness depends upon internal discipline and covenant faithfulness, not merely external temple reconstruction. The subsequent vision in the same chapter reveals a woman sitting inside an ephah (a measure of grain), identified as wickedness, whom the Lord presses down into the ephah and sets a leaden weight upon its opening. Two women with wings like storks lift up the ephah and carry it away to build a house in Babylonia, where the wickedness will dwell in its own place—suggesting that evil is removed from the covenant community and consigned to its proper sphere. In redemptive history, Zechariah's fifth vision establishes that the renewed covenant community requires internal purification and the removal of wickedness as a prerequisite for genuine restoration and holiness.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
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Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
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I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
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Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
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And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
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And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
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Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
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And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
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