Zechariah 5

Zechariah 5, Catholic Public Domain Version

1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes. And I saw, and behold, a book flying.†

   Et conversus sum, et levavi oculos meos, et vidi, et ecce volumen volans.

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   And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a book flying. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width is ten cubits.”

   Et dixit ad me: Quid tu vides? Et dixi: Ego video volumen volans: longitudo ejus viginti cubitorum, et latitudo ejus decem cubitorum.

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   And he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth. For every thief will be judged, just as it has been written there, and everyone who swears by this, will be judged in like manner.”

   Et dixit ad me: Hæc est maledictio quæ egreditur super faciem omnis terræ: quia omnis fur, sicut ibi scriptum est, judicabitur, et omnis jurans ex hoc similiter judicabitur.

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   I will bring it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it will approach to the house of the thief, and to the house of him who swears falsely by my name, and it will remain in the midst of his house and will consume it, with its wood and its stones.

   Educam illud, dicit Dominus exercituum: et veniet ad domum furis, et ad domum jurantis in nomine meo mendaciter: et commorabitur in medio domus ejus, et consumet eam, et ligna ejus, et lapides ejus.

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   And the angel had departed, who was speaking with me. And he said to me, “Lift up your eyes, and see what this is, that goes forth.”

   Et egressus est angelus qui loquebatur in me, et dixit ad me: Leva oculos tuos, et vide quid est hoc quod egreditur.

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   And I said, “What, then, is it?” And he said, “This is a container going forth.” And he said, “This is their eye in all the earth.”†

   Et dixi: Quidnam est? Et ait: Hæc est amphora egrediens. Et dixit: Hæc est oculus eorum in universa terra.

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   And behold, a talent of lead was being carried; and behold, one woman sitting in the middle of the container.

   Et ecce talentum plumbi portabatur, et ecce mulier una sedens in medio amphoræ.

8. 8

   And he said, “This is impiety.” And he cast her into the middle of the container, and he sent the weight of lead into its mouth.

   Et dixit: Hæc est impietas. Et projecit eam in medio amphoræ, et misit massam plumbeam in os ejus.

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   And I lifted up my eyes and I saw. And behold, two women were departing, and a spirit was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite, and they lifted up the container between earth and heaven.

   Et levavi oculos meos, et vidi: et ecce duæ mulieres egredientes: et spiritus in alis earum, et habebant alas quasi alas milvi, et levaverunt amphoram inter terram et cælum.

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    And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the container?”

    Et dixi ad angelum qui loquebatur in me: Quo istæ deferunt amphoram?

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    And he said to me, “To a house that may be built for it in the land of Shinar, and so that it may be established and set there upon its own base.”†

    Et dixit ad me: Ut ædificetur ei domus in terra Sennaar, et stabiliatur, et ponatur ibi super basem suam.

Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain · Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592)