1 Levantei novamente os olhos e vi um rolo que voava no ar.
2 Que estás a ver?, o anjo perguntou-me.Um rolo a deslocar-se no ar!, respondi: Parece ter uns dez metros de comprimento e cinco de largura.
3 E ele disse-me: Este rolo contém as palavras de Deus, amaldiçoando a Terra inteira, e afirmando que todos os que roubam e mentem já foram julgados e sentenciados à morte.
4 'Envio esta maldição à casa de todo o que rouba e de todo o que jura falsamente pelo meu nome
5 O anjo deixou-me por um momento, voltando depois para me dizer: Repara nisso que se está a deslocar no ar!
6 O que é? perguntei.É uma vasilha que se usa para medir grão , que está cheia com o pecado que prevalece por toda a parte.
7 De repente uma pesada tampa de chumbo, que cobria o recipiente, foi tirada e pude ver uma mulher lá dentro.
8 Representa a maldade, disse ele. E empurrou-a para dentro do recipiente, tornando a pôr em cima a tampa.
9 Depois vi duas mulheres voando na nossa direcção, com asas semelhantes às de uma cegonha. Pegaram naquela vasilha e levaram-na com elas pelos ares.
10 Para onde levaram elas a vasilha? perguntei ao anjo.
11 Para Babilónia replicou-me, onde vão construir-lhe um templo. Quando o templo estiver pronto, porão a vasilha no seu lugar próprio.
1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw a flying roll.
2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying roll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.
3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land: for according to this side [of the scroll], everyone who steals will be emptied; and according to the other side, everyone who swears will be emptied.
4 I brought it out, says Yahweh of hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will reside in the midst of his house, and will consume it with its timber and its stones.
5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.
6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their desire in all the land
7 (and, look, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.
8 And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead on its mouth.
9 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.
10 Then I said to the angel that talked with me, Where do these bear the ephah?
11 And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.