Zechariah 5:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The angel gives him an answer fuller than his question, and first tells the prophet what was to be done with it. To build it a house, not in mercy, but in judgment, as intending the next deportation should not be, as the first, for seventy years, but for ever. they should never return. In the land of Shinar; of Babylon, whither many of the Jews fled, and so by voluntary exile fulfilled this prophecy; Whither other's of them were forced by the Romans. It shall be established, and set there; there they shall be confined without hope of release. Upon her own base; not on the foundation of God's promise and covenant, but the base of their sins.