Zechariah's vision of a woman in a basket
5 Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward. He said, ‘Look up. See the thing that has now appeared.’
6 I asked, ‘What is it?’
He said, ‘It is a basket that people use to measure grain.’ He also said, ‘It shows the sin of all the people in the land.’
7 There was a heavy metal lid that covered the basket. As I looked, the angel lifted up the lid. I could see a woman who was sitting in the basket.
8 The angel said, ‘This woman shows what sin is.’ Then he pushed her down into the basket again. He put the heavy metal lid back on top of the basket.
9 Then I looked up and I saw two women. They had strong wings, like the wings of a large bird. The wind carried them towards me. They lifted the big basket up high into the sky.
10 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, ‘Where will these women take the basket?’
11 The angel said to me, ‘They will take it to the country of Babylon. They will build a temple for it there. When the temple is ready, they will put the basket in it. They will put it in a place of honour there.’
