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Zech 1:18-21

Second Vision: The Horns and the Smiths

18 ^*And I looked up and saw four horns. ¹⁹I asked the angel who talked with me, ‘What are these?’ And he answered me, ‘These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.’ ²⁰Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. ²¹And I asked, ‘What are they coming to do?’ He answered, ‘These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no head could be raised; but these have come to terrify them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.’^*

Zech 5:5-11

Seventh Vision: The Woman in a Basket

5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, ‘Look up and see what this is that is coming out.’ ⁶I said, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘This is a basket^* coming out.’ And he said, ‘This is their iniquity^* in all the land.’ ⁷Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!^* ⁸And he said, ‘This is Wickedness.’ So he thrust her back into the basket,^* and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth. ⁹Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket^* between earth and sky. ¹⁰Then I said to the angel who talked with me, ‘Where are they taking the basket?’^* ¹¹He said to me, ‘To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the basket^* down there on its base.’