Zechariah 4

FIFTH VISION: GOLD LAMPSTAND

4The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep. ²He asked me, “What do you see?”

I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. The lampstand also has seven lamps at the top with seven spouts for each of^C the lamps. ³There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵“Don’t you know what they are?” replied the angel who was speaking with me.

I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’^t says the Lord of Armies. ⁷‘What are you, great mountain?^u Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain.^v And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’ ”

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me:^{w 9}“Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house,^x and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. ¹⁰For who despises the day of small things?^y These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the ceremonial stone^D in Zerubbabel’s hand.”^z

¹¹I asked him, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?” ¹²And I questioned him further, “What are the two streams^E of the olive trees, from which the golden oil is pouring through the two golden conduits?”

¹³Then he inquired of me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I replied.

¹⁴“These are the two anointed ones,”^Aa he said, “who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”^b