1 I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll!
2 And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
3 And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it.
4 ‘I have sent it out,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’ ”
5 And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up! See what this is going out.”
6 And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity throughout all the earth.
7 And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.