1 Again I lifted my eyes and saw a flying scroll. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a flying scroll, about thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.” 3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the face of the whole earth. Every thief will be cleared away according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears will be cleared away according to what is on the other. 4 I have sent it out,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain inside his house and consume it, its timbers and its stones.” 5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said, “Lift your eyes now and see what this is that is coming out.” 6 I asked, “What is it?” He said, “This is the grain-measuring basket that is coming out.” Then he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth.” 7 A round lead cover was being lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. 8 He said, “This is Wickedness.” He threw her into the basket and threw the lead weight over its opening.

9 Then I lifted my eyes and saw two women coming out, with wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted the basket between earth and heaven. 10 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” 11 He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there on her base.”