Zechariah 5

va'ashuv va'essa enay va'ereh vehinneh megillah afah

I looked up again, and I saw a flying scroll.

vayyomer elay mah attah ro'eh va'omar ani ro'eh megillah afah orkah esrim ba'ammah verokhbah eser ba'ammah

“What do you see?” he asked. And I replied, “A flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

vayyomer elay zot ha'alah hayyotset al-pene khol-ha'arets ki khol-haggonev mizzeh kamoha niqqah vekhol-hannishba mizzeh kamoha niqqah

“That,” he explained to me, “is the curse that goes out over the whole land. For everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side [of the scroll], has gone unpunished; and everyone who has sworn [falsely], as is forbidden on the other side of it, has gone unpunished.

hotsetiha ne'um Adonai tseva'ot uva'ah el-bet haggannav ve'el-bet hannishba bishmi lashaqer velaneh betokh beto vekhillattu ve'et-etsayw ve'et-avanayw

[But] I have sent it forth—declares GOD of Hosts—and [the curse] shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name, and it shall lodge inside their houses and shall consume them to the last timber and stone.”

vayyetse hammalakh haddover bi vayyomer elay sa na enekha ure'eh mah hayyotset hazzot

Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said, “Now look up and note this other object that is approaching.”

va'omar mah-hi vayyomer zot ha'efah hayyotset vayyomer zot enam bekhol-ha'arets

I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This tub that is approaching—this,” said he, “is their eye in all the land.”

vehinneh kikkar oferet nisset vezot isha akhat yoshevet betokh ha'efah

And behold, a disk of lead was lifted, revealing a female figure seated inside the tub.

vayyomer zot harishah vayyashlekh otah el-tokh ha'efah vayyashlekh et-even ha'oferet el-piha

“That,” he said, “is Wickedness”; and, thrusting her back inside the tub, he pressed the leaden weight into the tub’s mouth.

va'essa enay va'ere vehinneh shetayim nashim yotse'ot veruakh bekhanfehem velahennah khenafayim kekhanfe hakhasidah vattissenah et-ha'efah ben ha'arets uven hashamayim

I looked up again and saw two female figures come soaring with the wind in their wings—they had wings like those of a stork—and carry off the tub between earth and sky.

va'omar el-hammalakh haddover bi anah hemmah molikhot et-ha'efah

“Where are they taking the tub?” I asked the angel who talked with me.

vayyomer elay livnot-lah vayit be'erets shinar vehukhan vehunnikhah sham al-mekhunatah

And he answered, “To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar; [a stand] shall be erected for it, and it shall be set down there upon the stand.”