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Zechariah 5

1 The vision of the flying booke, signifying the curse of theves, and suche as abuse the Name of God. 6 By the vision of the measure is signified the bringing of Judah’s afflictions into Babylon.
1.Then I turned me, and lift up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a flying booke.
2.And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I se a flying abooke · the length thereof is twenty cubites, and the breadth thereof ten cubites.
3.Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the whole earth: for every one that bstealeth, shalbe cut off aswel on this cside, as on that: and every one that dsweareth, shal be cut off aswel on this side, as on that.
4.I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hostes, and it shal enter into the house of the thief, & into the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my Name: and it shal remain in the middes of his house, and shal consume it, with the timbre thereof, and stones thereof.
5.Then the Angel that talked with me, went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and se what is this that goeth forth.
6.And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an eEpháh that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is the fsight of them, through all the earth.
7.And behold, there was lift up a gtalent of lead: and this is a hwoman that sitteth in the middes of the Epháh.
8.And he said, This is iwickedness, and he cast it into the middes of the Epháh, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
9.Then lift I up mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came out two kwomen, and the wind was in their wings (for they had wings like the wings of a stork) and they lift up the Epháh between the earth and the heaven.
10.Then said I to the Angel that talked with me, Whither do these beare the Epháh?
11.And he said unto me, iTo build it an house in the land of Shinár, and it shalbe established & set there upon her own place.

Notes

2-a.
Because the Jews had provoked God’s plagues by contemning his word, and casting off all judgement and equity, he shows that God’s curses written in this book had justly light both on them, and their fathers: but now if they would repent, God would send the same among the Caldeans their former enemies.
3-b.
That is, uses any injury toward his neighbour.
3-c.
Meaning, wheresoever he be in the world.
3-d.
He that transgresses the first table, and serves not God aright, but abuses God’s Name.
6-e.
Which was a measure in dry things containing about ten pottels.
6-f.
That is, all the wickedness of the ungodly is in God’s sight, which he keeps in a measure and can shut it or open it at his pleasure.
7-g.
To cover the measure.
7-h.
Which represents iniquity, as in the next verse.
8-I.
Signifying that Satan should not have such power against the Jews to tempt them, as he had in time past, but that God would shut up iniquity in a measure as in a prison.
9-k.
Which declares that God would execute his judgements by the means of weak and infirm means.
11-l.
To remove the iniquity and afflictions that came for the same from Judah, to place it for ever in Babylon.