“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.”
Zechariah then sees two women with wind in their wings, lifting the ephah between earth and heaven\u2014establishing that the confined wickedness will be transported away from the land by divine agents. The two women recall the two female figures who appeared in the vision of the scarlet thread (in some apocalyptic traditions) and suggest divine agents or powers of removal. The wings and wind suggest swift, unstoppable motion: the wickedness will not linger but will be carried away with certainty. The movement between earth and heaven suggests that the removal transcends the ordinary realm: it is accomplished through divine power operating across the boundaries between the visible and invisible worlds. The ephah is lifted, suggesting that what burdened the land\u2014the weight of iniquity\u2014is removed and elevated. This image provides reassurance to the community: wickedness is not eliminated by human effort but by divine agents who will carry it away.
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