SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:6
Y dije: ¿Qué es? Y él dijo: Esta es un efa de medir trigo que sale. Además dijo: Este es la iniquidad de ellos en toda la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Zechariah 5:6
Verse 6. This is an ephah that goeth forth.] This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The woman in the ephah is supposed to represent Judea, which shall be visited for its sins; the talent of lead on the ephah, within which the woman was enclosed, the wrath of God, bending down this culprit nation, in the measure of its sins; for the angel said, "This is wickedness;" that is, the woman represents the mass of iniquity of this nation.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And I said, What [is] it ? etc.] After he had lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, and what was the meaning of it: and he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth ; which was a measure much in use with the Jews, ( Exodus 16:36 Leviticus 19:36 Ruth 2:17) it is the same with the “bath”, and held above seven wine gallons. The Targum interprets this of such who dealt in false measures, whose sin is exposed, and their punishment set forth; but rather it designs the measure of iniquity filling up, either in Judea, particularly in the times of Christ, ( Matthew 23:32) or in the whole world, and especially in the antichristian states, ( Revelation 18:5,6): and He said moreover, this [is] their resemblance through all the earth ; or “this is their eye” f97 ; what they are looking at, and intent upon, namely, this ephah; that is, to fill up the measure of their iniquity: or, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it, this ephah, which thou seest, shows that there is an eye upon them which sees their works; and this is the eye of the Lord, which sees and takes notice of all the evil actions of men, not as approving them, but as observing them, and avenging them. Cocceius, by the “ephah”, understands an abundance of temporal good things bestowed upon the Christian church in Constantine’s time and following, on which the eyes of carnal men were looking.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-11 - In this vision the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of corn measure. This betokened the Jewish nation. They are filling the measure of their iniquity; and when it is full, they shall be delivere into the hands of those to whom God sold them for their sins. The woma sitting in the midst of the ephah represents the sinful church an 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 seem 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, carrie 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, a they had been in Babylon. There the ephah shall be firmly placed, an their sufferings shall continue far longer than in their lat captivity. Blindness is happened unto Israel, and they are settled upo their own unbelief. Let sinners fear to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath; for the more they multiply crimes, the faster the measur fills __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואמר 559 מה 4100 היא 1931 ויאמר 559 זאת 2063 האיפה 374 היוצאת 3318 ויאמר 559 זאת 2063 עינם 5869 בכל 3605 הארץ׃ 776
