1Again I looked up and saw a scroll flying through the air.
2He asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll. It is 30 feet long and 15 feet wide."
3Then he told me, "This is the curse that is going out over the whole land. On one side, it says that everyone who steals will be removed from the land. On the other side, it says that everyone who lies under oath will also be removed."
4Yahweh of Armies says, "I will send this curse out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will stay in that house and destroy it completely, along with its wooden beams and stones."
5Then the angel who was talking with me came forward and said, "Look up now and see what this is that is appearing."
6I asked, "What is it?" He said, "This is an ephah basket that is appearing." He also said, "This is how they appear throughout the land."
7And inside the basket, a round lead cover was being lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.
8He said, "This is Wickedness." Then he pushed her back down into the ephah basket and put the heavy lead cover back over its opening.
9Then I looked up and saw two women appearing with wind in their wings. They had wings like storks, and they lifted the ephah basket up between the earth and the sky.
10Then I asked the angel who was talking with me, "Where are they taking the ephah basket?"
11He said to me, "To build her a temple in the land of Babylonia. When it's ready, she will be placed there at her own shrine."