Zacharie 5:1-4

1 Je levai de nouveau les yeux et je regardai, et voici, il y avait un rouleau qui volait.

2 Il me dit: Que vois-tu? Je répondis: Je vois un rouleau qui vole; il a vingt coudées de longueur, et dix coudées de largeur.

3 Et il me dit: C'est la malédiction qui se répand sur tout le pays; car selon elle tout voleur sera chassé d'ici, et selon elle tout parjure sera chassé d'ici.

4 Je la répands, dit l'Eternel des armées, afin qu'elle entre dans la maison du voleur et de celui qui jure faussement en mon nom, afin qu'elle y établisse sa demeure, et qu'elle la consume avec le bois et les pierres.

Zacharie 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.