Zechariah 5:1-4·~1 min

The Vision of the Flying Scroll

Zechariah again lifts his eyes and sees a flying scroll, and in response to the angel's question he describes its great size. The image is public, visible, and expansive, suggesting that the coming judgment is not hidden or local but openly moving through the land with divine authority.

A¹gain I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll. ²“What do you see?” asked the angel.

The angel identifies the scroll as the curse going out over the whole land against thieves and perjurers. The LORD Himself sends it, and it penetrates the houses of the guilty until those houses are destroyed from timber to stone. The paragraph emphasizes that covenant-breaking sin brings comprehensive divine judgment that reaches into domestic and ordinary life.

³Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed. ⁴I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

Section summaryZechariah sees a large flying scroll moving openly across the land. The angel explains that it is the curse going out against covenant breakers, especially thieves and those who swear falsely by the LORD's name. The curse will enter the guilty person's house and consume it down to its very materials. The vision portrays divine judgment as active, inescapable, and specifically tied to covenant violations that corrupt communal life.

Role in the chapterThis section shows that the restored land will still be subject to God's covenant curse against those who persist in theft and false oath-taking.