Zechariah 5:4 - Exposition

I will bring it forth. God will not keep the curse confined and inoperative ( Deuteronomy 32:34 , etc.), but it shall enter into the house of the thief. The curse shall not fall lightly and pass quickly by, but shall fix its abode with the sinner till it has worked out its fell purpose. It shall remain ; it shall pass the night— take up its lodging; LXX ; καταλύσει . With the timber thereof, etc. A hyperbolical expression of the terrible effects of Divine vengeance, which consumes utterly like a devouring fire—an adumbration of the destruction at the day of judgment (comp. Deuteronomy 4:24 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Matthew 3:12 ).