Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
- KJV Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
- BSB Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
- NKJV Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.
- NLT I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.
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Quick answer
Zechariah's sixth vision: a large flying scroll. It represents God's written curse going out against sin.
Overview
The scroll, inscribed with God's word, flies over the land, signaling that judgment is set in motion. This vision turns from comfort to the seriousness of sin among the restored people. It reminds the community that restoration does not erase the need for holiness, for God's word both blesses the repentant and condemns the unrepentant.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Zech 5:2He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”
- Ezek 2:9–10When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
- Isa 8:1Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
- Rev 10:2He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
- Jer 36:1–6In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Rev 10:8–11The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
- Rev 5:1–14I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
- Jer 36:27–32Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
- Jer 36:20–24They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
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The Branch who is both priest and king, the shepherd struck and the flock scattered, the king coming humble on a donkey, the one they pierced, the fountain opened for sin — Zechariah is dense with Christ.
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