Zechariah 4:1-14
4 And the angel who was speaking with me proceeded to come back and wake me up, like a man that is awakened from his sleep.+
2 Then he said to me: “What are you seeing?”+
So I said: “I have seen, and, look! there is a lampstand, all of it of gold,+ with a bowl on top of it. And its seven lamps are upon it, even seven;+ and the lamps that are at the top of it have seven pipes.
3 And there are two olive trees alongside it,+ one on the right side of the bowl and one on its left side.”
4 Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me, saying: “What do these [things] mean, my lord?”*+
5 So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me: “Do you not really know what these things mean?”
In turn I said: “No, my lord.”+
6 Accordingly he answered and said to me: “This is the word of Jehovah to Ze·rubʹba·bel, saying, ‘“Not by a military force,*+ nor by power,*+ but by my spirit,”*+ Jehovah of armies has said.
7 Who are you, O great mountain?+ Before Ze·rubʹba·bel+ [you will become] a level land. And he will certainly bring forth the headstone.+ There will be shoutings+ to it: “How charming! How charming!”’”+
8 And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying:
9 “The very hands of Ze·rubʹba·bel have laid the foundation of this house,+ and his own hands will finish [it].+ And you will have to know that Jehovah of armies himself has sent me to YOU people.+
10 For who has despised the day of small things?+ And they will certainly rejoice+ and see the plummet* in the hand of Ze·rubʹba·bel. These seven are the eyes of Jehovah.+ They are roving about in all the earth.”+
11 And I proceeded to answer and say to him: “What do these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side mean?”+
12 Then I answered the second time and said to him: “What are the two bunches of twigs* of the olive trees that, by means of the two golden tubes, are pouring forth from within themselves the golden [liquid]?”
13 So he said to me: “Do you not really know what these [things] mean?”
In turn I said: “No, my lord.”+
14 Accordingly he said: “These are the two anointed ones*+ who are standing alongside the Lord of the whole earth.”*+
Footnotes
^ “My lord.” Heb., ʼadho·niʹ.
^ Or, “by vital energy.” Heb., vechaʹyil.
^ “By power.” Heb., vekhoʹach.
^ Lit., “the stone [or, weight], the tin.” Heb., ha·ʼeʹven hab·bedhilʹ.
^ Lit., “sons of the oil,” MVg; LXXSy, “sons of fattiness”; T, “sons of princes.”
^ “Lord of the whole earth.” Heb., ʼAdhohnʹ kol-ha·ʼaʹrets.
