Zechariah 5:1

THE MESSAGE

I looked up again and saw—surprise!—a book on the wing! A book flying!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Hebrew Names Version
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.

King James Version (1611)
Then I turned, and lift vp mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying roule.

King James Version
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

English Standard Version
Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

New American Standard Bible
Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

New Century Version
I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Amplified Bible
Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying in the air!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I turned me, and lifted vp mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

Berean Standard Bible
Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

Contemporary English Version
When I looked the next time, I saw a flying scroll,

Complete Jewish Bible
Again I raised my eyes, and I saw in front of me a flying scroll.

Darby Translation
And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.

Easy-to-Read Version
I looked up again, and I saw a flying scroll.

George Lamsa Translation
THEN I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked, and beheld a flying scroll.

Good News Translation
I looked again, and this time I saw a scroll flying through the air.

Lexham English Bible
I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll!

Literal Translation
And I again lifted up my eyes and looked, and, behold, a flying scroll!

American Standard Version
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.

Bible in Basic English
Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I turned me, lifting vp myne eyes, & loked, and beholde, a fleeing booke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.

English Revised Version
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.

World English Bible
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y was conuertid, and reiside myn iyen, and siy, and lo! a book fleynge.

Update Bible Version
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw a flying roll.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

New English Translation
Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

New King James Version
Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.

New Living Translation
I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

New Life Bible
I looked up again and saw a flying book.

New Revised Standard
Again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And once more lifted I mine eyes, and looked, - and lo! a Flying Volume.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.

Revised Standard Version
Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

Young's Literal Translation
And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes, & loked, & beholde, a flyenge boke.

Contextual Overview

¹ I looked up again and saw—surprise!—a book on the wing! A book flying! ² The Messenger-Angel said to me, "What do you see now?" I said, "I see a book flying, a huge book—thirty feet long and fifteen wide!" ³He told me, "This book is the verdict going out worldwide against thieves and liars. The first half of the book disposes of everyone who steals; the second half takes care of everyone who lies. I launched it"—Decree of God -of-the-Angel-Armies—"and so it will fly into the house of every thief and every liar. It will land in each house and tear it down, timbers and stones."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

roll: Zechariah 5:2, Isaiah 8:1, Jeremiah 36:1-6, Jeremiah 36:20-24, Jeremiah 36:27-32, Ezekiel 2:9, Ezekiel 2:10, Revelation 5:1-14, Revelation 10:2, Revelation 10:8-11

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:8 - sent a word Jeremiah 36:4 - upon Daniel 8:3 - I lifted Habakkuk 2:9 - that coveteth an evil covetousness Zechariah 1:18 - lifted Zechariah 5:5 - Lift Zechariah 6:1 - I turned

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 10:1
This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam Seth Enosh Kenan Mahalalel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young, Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes, Before your vision dims and the world blurs And the winter years keep you close to the fire.

Matthew 1:1
The family tree of Jesus Christ, David's son, Abraham's son:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I turned, and lift up mine eyes, and looked,.... The prophet turned himself from looking upon the candlestick and olive branches, having had a full and clear understanding of them, and looked another way, and saw another vision:

and behold a flying roll, a volume or book flying in the air; it being usual for books, which were written on parchment, to be rolled up in the form of a cylinder; whence they were called rolls or volumes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hitherto all had been bright, full of the largeness of the gifts of God; of God’s favor to His people ; the removal of their enemies ; the restoration and expansion and security of God’s people and Church under His protection ; the acceptance of the present typical priesthood and the promise of Him, through whom there should be entire forgiveness : the abiding illumining of the Church by the Spirit of God . Yet there is a reverse side to all this, God’s judgments on those who reject all His mercies. Augustine, de Civ. Del. 17:3. Ribera: “Prophecies partly appertain to those in whose times the sacred writers prophesied, partly to the mysteries of Christ. And therefore it is the custom of the prophets, at one time to chastise vices and set forth punishments, at another to predict the mysteries of Christ and the Church.”

And I turned and - Or, “Again I lifted up my eyes” Gen 26:18; 2 Kings 1:11, 2 Kings 1:13; Jeremiah 18:14, having again sunk down in meditation on what he had seen, “and behold a roll flying;” as, to Ezekiel was shown “a hand with a roll of a book therein, and he spread it before me.” Ezekiel’s roll also was “written within and without, and there was written, therein lamentation and mourning and woe” Ezekiel 2:9-10. It was a wide unfolded roll, as is involved in its flying; but its “flight signified the very swift coming of punishment; its flying from heaven that the sentence came from the judgment-seat above” (Ribera).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

The vision of the large flying roll, with the angel's

explanation, 1-4.

The vision of the ephah, and of the woman sitting on it, with

the signification, 5-11.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Zechariah 5:1. Behold a flying roll. — This was twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad; the prophet saw it expanded, and flying. Itself was the catalogue of the crimes of the people, and the punishment threatened by the Lord. Some think the crimes were those of the Jews; others, those of the Chaldeans. The roll is mentioned in allusion to those large rolls on which the Jews write the Pentateuch. One now lying before me is one hundred and fifty-three feet long, by twenty-one inches wide, written on fine brown Basle goat-skin; some time since brought from Jerusalem, supposed to be four hundred years old.