The Vision of the Flying Scroll 1 UDB I looked up again, and I saw a scroll that was flying through the air. BSB BSB: Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
2 UDB The angel asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll that is huge, nine meters long and four and a half meters wide." BSB BSB: “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
3 UDB Then he said to me, "On this scroll Yahweh has written the words that he is speaking to curse the entire land of Judah. On one side of the scroll it is written that every thief will be banished. On the other side it is written that everyone who tells a lie when he is calling on Yahweh to witness that he is telling the truth will also be banished from the country. BSB BSB: Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
4 UDB The Commander of the angel armies says, 'I will send this scroll to the places where thieves live and to the houses of those who use my name when they call on me to witness that they are telling the truth. This scroll will stay in their houses until those houses and all their wood and stones are destroyed.'" BSB BSB: I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
The Vision of the Woman in a Basket 5 UDB Then the angel who had been talking to me came closer to me and said, "Look up and see what is coming!" BSB BSB: Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
6 UDB I asked him, "What is it?" He replied, "It is a big barrel for measuring grain. But it contains a record of the sins that everyone in this nation has committed." BSB BSB: “What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
7 UDB Then the angel lifted the barrel's cover, which was made of lead. There was a woman sitting inside the barrel! BSB BSB: And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
8 UDB The angel said, "She represents the wicked things that people do." Then he pushed her back into the barrel and closed the very heavy lid again. BSB BSB: “This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
9 UDB Then I looked up and saw two women in front of me. They were flying toward us, with their wings spread out in the wind. Their wings were large, like storks' wings. They lifted the barrel up into the sky. BSB BSB: Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
10 UDB I asked the angel who had been talking to me, "Where are they taking that barrel?" BSB BSB: “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.
11 UDB He replied, "They are taking it to Babylonia to build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, they will set the barrel there on a pedestal for people to worship it." BSB BSB: “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”