Sājiālìyàshū 5:1-4

1 Wǒ yòu jǔmù guānkàn , jiàn yǒu yī fēi xíng de shū juǎn .

2 Tā wèn wǒ shuō , nǐ kànjian shénme . wǒ huídá shuō , wǒ kànjian yī fēi xíng de shū juǎn , zhǎng èr shí zhǒu . kuān shí zhǒu .

3 Tā duì wǒ shuō , zhè shì fāchū xíng zaì biàn dì shang de zhòuzǔ . fán tōuqiè de bì àn juǎn shang zhè miàn de huà chúmiĕ . fán qǐ jiǎ shì de bì àn juǎn shang nà miàn de huà chúmiĕ .

4 Wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ bì shǐ zhè shū juǎn chū qù , jìnrù tōuqiè rén de jiā , hé zhǐ wǒ míng qǐ jiǎ shì rén de jiā , bì cháng zaì tā jiā lǐ , lián fángwū daì mù shí dōu huǐmiè le .

Sājiālìyàshū 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.