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# Zechariah 5

Zechariah 5 is chapter 5 of 14 in the Book of Zechariah. Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The vision of the flying volume, and of the woman in the vessel.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Zechariah 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes. And I saw, and behold, a book flying.
2. 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.”
3. 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.”
4. 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.
5. 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.”
6. 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.”
7. And behold, a talent of lead was being carried; and behold, one woman sitting in the middle of the container.
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.
9. 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.
10. And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the container?”
11. 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.”

## Zechariah 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et conversus sum, et levavi oculos meos, et vidi, et ecce volumen volans.
2. Et dixit ad me: Quid tu vides? Et dixi: Ego video volumen volans: longitudo ejus viginti cubitorum, et latitudo ejus decem cubitorum.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Et egressus est angelus qui loquebatur in me, et dixit ad me: Leva oculos tuos, et vide quid est hoc quod egreditur.
6. Et dixi: Quidnam est? Et ait: Hæc est amphora egrediens. Et dixit: Hæc est oculus eorum in universa terra.
7. Et ecce talentum plumbi portabatur, et ecce mulier una sedens in medio amphoræ.
8. Et dixit: Hæc est impietas. Et projecit eam in medio amphoræ, et misit massam plumbeam in os ejus.
9. 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.
10. Et dixi ad angelum qui loquebatur in me: Quo istæ deferunt amphoram?
11. Et dixit ad me: Ut ædificetur ei domus in terra Sennaar, et stabiliatur, et ponatur ibi super basem suam.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient books, which, from being rolled up, were called volumes.
- Verse 6: “This is their eye” … This is what they fix their eye upon: or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners.
- Verse 11: Where Babel or Babylon was built, Gen. 11., where note, that Babylon in holy writ is often taken for the city of the devil: that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked: as Jerusalem is taken for the city and people of God.

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