The vision in Zec. 5,5-11 offers some intriguing questions: what is the purpose of the vision, and why these strange images? Recent exegesis is evaluated, e.g. with the question in mind if there is anti-feminine discourse in this passage. The speaker argues that the vision is not inherently anti-women; besides the woman in the jar representing 'evil', two winged women play a positive role by removing the evil. It remains, however, disturbing that prophetic literature so easily uses feminine figures to represent something, instead of letting women Other aspects of the vision, like the relationship of the woman tot the 'spouse of YHWH' (Diana Edelman), are evaluated.