Zechariah 4

Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees

4Now ^athe angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, ^bas a man who is wakened out of his sleep. ²And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I said, “I am looking, and there is ^ca lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, ^dand on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. ^3eTwo olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.” ⁴So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶So he answered and said to me:

“This is the word of the Lord to ^fZerubbabel:

^g‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’

Says the Lord of hosts.

⁷‘Who are you, ^hO great mountain?

Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!

And he shall bring forth ⁱthe capstone

^jWith shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”

⁸Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

⁹“The hands of Zerubbabel

^kHave laid the foundation of this ¹temple;

His hands ^lshall also finish it.

Then ^myou will know

That the ⁿLord of hosts has sent Me to you.

¹⁰For who has despised the day of ^osmall things?

For these seven rejoice to see

The ²plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

^pThey are the eyes of the Lord,

Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”

¹¹Then I answered and said to him, “What are these ^qtwo olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?” ¹²And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip ³into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”

¹³Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

¹⁴So he said, ^r“These are the two ⁴anointed ones, ^swho stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”