Zacharie 5:5-11

5 Puis l'ange qui me parlait s'avança dehors, et me dit: Lève les yeux, et regarde ce qui sort là.
6 Et je dis: Qu'est-ce? Il répondit: C'est un épha qui paraît. Il dit encore: C'est l'aspect qu'ils présentent dans tout le pays.
7 Et je vis une masse de plomb soulevée, et il y avait là une femme assise au milieu de l'épha.
8 Et il dit: C'est là l'iniquité! Et il la rejeta au milieu de l'épha, et rejeta la masse de plomb sur l'ouverture.
9 Et, levant les yeux, je regardai, et je vis paraître deux femmes; et le vent soufflait dans leurs ailes; elles avaient des ailes comme les ailes de la cigogne, et elles enlevèrent l'épha entre la terre et les cieux.
10 Et je dis à l'ange qui me parlait: Où emportent-elles l'épha?
11 Et il me dit: C'est pour lui bâtir une maison au pays de Shinear; et quand elle sera préparée, il sera posé là sur sa base.

Zacharie 5:5-11 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.

The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.