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¹ Then I turned me, and lifted vp mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.

² And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flyingBecause the Jews had provoked God's plagues by condemning his word, and casting off all judgment and equity, he shows that God's curses written in this book had justly happened both to them and their fathers. But now if they would repent, God would send the same among the Chaldeans and their former enemies.scroll; its length [is] twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.

³ Then said he to me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one thatThat is, does any injury toward his neighbour.stealeth shall be cut off [as] on thisMeaning, wherever he is in the world.side according to it; and every one thatHe that transgresses the first table of the ten commandments, and does not serve God correctly but abuses his name.sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.

⁴ I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thiefe, and into the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my Name: and it shall remaine in the middes of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and stones thereof.

⁵ Then the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and said vnto me, Lift vp now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth foorth.

⁶ And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] anWhich was a measure in dry things, containing about five gallons.ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] theirThat 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.resemblance through all the earth.

⁷ And, behold, there was lifted up aTo cover the measure.talent of lead: and this [is] aWhich represents iniquity, as in the next verse.woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

⁸ And he said, This [is]Signifying that Satan would not have such power against the Jews to tempt them, as he had in times past, but that God would shut up iniquity in a measure as in a prison.wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon its mouth.

⁹ Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out twoWhich declared that God would execute his judgment by the means of the weak and infirm.women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

¹⁰ Then saide I to the Angel that talked with me, Whither doe these beare the Ephah?

¹¹ And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land ofTo remove the iniquity and affliction that came from Judah because of the judgment, to place it forever in Babylon.Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.