Zacarias 5:1-4

A Visão do Pergaminho que Voava

1 Levantei novamente os olhos, e vi diante de mim um pergaminho que voava.

2 O anjo me perguntou: “O que você está vendo?”Respondi: Vejo um pergaminho voando, com nove metros de comprimento por quatro e meio de largura.^[a]

3 Então ele me disse: “Nele está escrita a maldição que está sendo derramada sobre toda a terra, porque tanto o ladrão como o que jura falsamente serão expulsos, conforme essa maldição.

4 Assim declara o SENHOR dos Exércitos: ‘Eu lancei essa maldição para que ela entre na casa do ladrão e na casa do que jura falsamente pelo meu nome. Ela ficará em sua casa e destruirá tanto as vigas como os tijolos!’ ”

Zacarias 5:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ZECHARIAH 5

This chapter treats of the judgments of God upon the wicked Jews for their sins and impieties, the measure of which was filled up, and of the execution of them, which are represented in two visions: the first is of a flying roll, which signifies the curse of God, and is described by its measure, the length being twenty cubits, and the breadth ten; and by the extent of it, it reaching to the whole earth, and particularly to thieves and false swearers, who shall be cut off by it; and by the certainty of its coming into the houses of such, and the utter desolation it should there make, Zec 5:1-4 and the other is the vision of an ephah, and a woman sitting in it, and a talent of lead cast upon the mouth of it, which signified wickedness, Zec 5:5-8 this "ephah" is seen to be lifted up between earth and heaven by two women, who are said to have wings like the wings of storks, and the wind to be in them; and who are said by the angel to carry the "ephah" into the land of Shinar, to build it a house, that it might be established and settled upon its own base, Zec 5:9-11.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebraico: "20 côvados de comprimento e 10 côvados de largura. " O côvado era uma medida linear de cerca de 45 centímetros.