Zechariah 4

The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees

4Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke^q me up, like someone awakened from sleep.^{r 2}He asked me, “What do you see?”^s

I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand^t with a bowl at the top and seven lamps^u on it, with seven channels to the lamps. ³Also there are two olive trees^v by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

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

⁵He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I replied.^w

⁶So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:^x ‘Not^y by might nor by power,^z but by my Spirit,’^a says the Lord Almighty.

⁷“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground.^b Then he will bring out the capstone^c to shouts^d of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’ ”

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation^e of this temple; his hands will also complete it.^f Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me^g to you.

¹⁰“Who dares despise the day^h of small things,ⁱ since the seven eyes^j of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone^a in the hand of Zerubbabel?”^k

¹¹Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees^l on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

¹²Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

¹³He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I said.

¹⁴So he said, “These are the two who are anointed^m to^b serve the Lord of all the earth.”