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New Living Translation

Zechariah 5:1

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Roll;   Thompson Chain Reference - Rolls, of Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Roll;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Prophecy of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Old Testament;   Writing;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Flying;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Book;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abraham, Testament of;   Manuscripts;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I looked up again, and I saw 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.
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.
Amplified Bible
Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flying in the air!
English Standard Version
Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!
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.
English Revised Version
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
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,
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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.
King James Version (1611)
Then I turned, and lift vp mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying roule.
New Life Bible
I looked up again and saw a flying book.
New Revised Standard
Again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I turned me, and lifted vp mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked, and beheld 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!
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.
Good News Translation
I looked again, and this time I saw a scroll flying through the air.
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
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
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!
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.
THE MESSAGE
I looked up again and saw—surprise!—a book on the wing! A book flying!
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 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.

Contextual Overview

1 I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air. 2 "What do you see?" the angel asked. "I see a flying scroll," I replied. "It appears to be about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide." 3 Then he said to me, "This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land. 4 And this is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely using my name. And my curse will remain in that house and completely destroy it—even its 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 2:4
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 5:26
After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
Genesis 10:1
This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
1 Chronicles 1:1
The descendants of Adam were Seth, Enosh,
Ecclesiastes 7:29
But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path."
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, "Life is not pleasant anymore."
Matthew 1:1
This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham:
1 Corinthians 11:7
A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God's image and reflects God's glory. And woman reflects man's glory.

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.


 
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