1 Once more I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying.
2 "What do you see?" he asked me. I said, "A scroll in flight, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide."
3 He told me, "This is the curse going out across the whole land; for by what is written on one side every thief will be purged out, and by what is written on the other everyone who swears falsely will be purged out.
4 I have sent it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it will go into the thief's house and into the house of whoever swears falsely by my name; it will settle inside his house and eat it away, timbers and stones alike."
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, "Look up and see what this thing is that is coming out."
6 "What is it?" I asked. "It is an ephah going out," he said, and he added, "This is their appearance throughout the land."
7 Then a round lid of lead was raised, and there inside the ephah sat a woman.
8 "This is Wickedness," he said, and he shoved her down inside the ephah and pressed the lead weight onto its mouth.
9 I looked up and saw two women coming out with wind in their wings; their wings were like a stork's, and they carried the ephah up between earth and sky.
10 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "Where are they carrying the ephah?"
11 He answered, "To the land of Shinar, to build a temple for it there; when that is ready, it will be placed there on its own stand."