Charles Ellicott Commentary Zechariah 5:4

"I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof." — Zechariah 5:4 (ASV)

It. — The curse, as borne on the scroll.

Bring forth. — As it were, from His treasure-house, where all preordained events are stored up (Deuteronomy 32:34–35).

And shall consume it. — In Herodotus (Book VI:86) there is an interesting parallel to this verse. A Milesian had deposited a sum of money with Glaucus on trust. When the sons of the depositor came to claim it, Glaucus consulted the oracle of Delphi whether he might perjure himself and keep the money. The priestess told him that it was best for the present to do as he desired, because death was the common lot of the honest and the dishonest. “Yet,” she added, “Oath has a son, nameless, handless, footless, but swift he pursues, until he seizes and destroys the whole race and house.”