“Then I looked up.
I saw two women
Coming forward.
The wind
Was in their wings.
They had wings
Like the wings
Of a stork.
They lifted up the basket
Between the earth
And the heavens.
Then I said to the angel
Who talked with me.
‘Where are they taking
The basket?’
He said to me.
‘To the land of Shinar,
To build a house for it.
When this is prepared,
They will set the basket
Down there on its base.’”
Next two-winged women came forward, with wings like a stork. They took the basket into the sky with the wicked woman in it. Zechariah wanted to know where they were taking the basket. The angel who had been talking with Zechariah said that they were taking the basket to the land of Shinar, another name for Babylon. There they were going to build a house or a temple and put this basket of wickedness in the middle of the temple on a base set up there. In other words, this wicked basket was going to become a Babylonian idol.