Zechariah 5:5
 Zechariah 5:5 
New International Version (©2011)
Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, "Look up and see what is appearing."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the angel who was talking with me came forward and said, "Look up and see what's coming."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, "Look up and see what this is that is approaching."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the angel who had been talking with me stepped forward and told me, "Please look up and see what's going out."

NET Bible (©2006)
After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said, "Look, see what is leaving."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The angel who was speaking with me came forward. He said, "Look up, and see what's coming."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth.

American King James Version
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth.

American Standard Version
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.

Darby Bible Translation
And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

English Revised Version
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thy eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

World English Bible
Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."

Young's Literal Translation
And the messenger who is speaking with me goeth forth, and saith unto me, 'Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see what is this that is coming forth?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:5-11 In this vision the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of a corn measure. This betokened the Jewish nation. They are filling the measure of their iniquity; and when it is full, they shall be delivered into the hands of those to whom God sold them for their sins. The woman sitting in the midst of the ephah represents the sinful church and nation of the Jews, in their latter and corrupt age. Guilt is upon the sinner as a weight of lead, to sink him to the lowest hell. This seems to mean the condemnation of the Jews, after they filled the measure of their iniquities by crucifying Christ and rejecting his gospel. Zechariah sees the ephah, with the woman thus pressed in it, carried away to some far country. This intimates that the Jews should be hurried out of their own land, and forced to dwell in far countries, as they had been in Babylon. There the ephah shall be firmly placed, and their sufferings shall continue far longer than in their late captivity. Blindness is happened unto Israel, and they are settled upon their own unbelief. Let sinners fear to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath; for the more they multiply crimes, the faster the measure fills.


Pulpit Commentary

Verses 5-11 - § 9. The seventh vision: the woman in the ephah. Verse 5. - Went forth. While the prophet meditated on the last vision, the interpreting angel retired into the background or among the company of angels; he now comes into view again to explain a new revelation closely connected with the former. That goeth forth. That comes into sight from the surrounding darkness. As the preceding vision denoted that sinners should be extirpated, so the present vision shows how iniquity itself, the very principle of evil, should be removed from the Holy Land.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the angel that talked with me went forth,.... From the place where he was, and had been interpreting the vision of the flying roll, unto another more convenient for showing and explaining the following one; and, as it should seem, took the prophet along with him:

and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth; either out of the temple or out of heaven, into some open place, where it might be seen.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Zec 5:5-11. Seventh Vision. The Woman in the Ephah. Wickedness and idolatry removed from the Holy Land to Babylon, there to mingle with their kindred elements.

The ephah is the Hebrew dry measure containing about a bushel, or seven and a half gallons. Alluding to the previous vision as to theft and perjury: the ephah which, by falsification of the measure, they made the instrument of defrauding, shall be made the instrument of their punishment [Grotius]. Compare "this is their resemblance" (Zec 5:6), that is, this is a representation of what the Jews have done, and what they shall suffer. Their total dispersion ("the land of Shinar" being the emblem of the various Gentile lands of their present dispersion) is herein fortetold, when the measure (to which the ephah alludes) of their sins should be full. The former vision denounces judgment on individuals; this one, on the whole state: but enigmatically, not to discourage their present building [Pembellus]. Rather, the vision is consolatory after the preceding one [Calvin]. Idolatry and its kindred sins, covetousness and fraud (denounced in the vision of the roll), shall be removed far out of the Holy Land to their own congenial soil, never to return (so Zec 3:9; Isa 27:9; 52:1; 60:21; Jer 50:20; Zep 3:13). For more than two thousand years, ever since the Babylonian exile, the Jews have been free from idolatry; but the full accomplishment of the prophecy is yet future, when all sin shall be purged from Israel on their return to Palestine, and conversion to Christ.

5. went forth—The interpreting angel had withdrawn after the vision of the roll to receive a fresh revelation from the Divine Angel to communicate to the prophet.


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The Woman in a Basket
5Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth. 6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. 7And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sits in the middle of the ephah. …

Ezekiel 8:5 Then he said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.
Zechariah 1:9 I asked, "What are these, my lord?" The angel who was talking with me answered, "I will show you what they are."