Zechariah 4

1 And once more the messenger who was speaking with me, roused me up, just as a man might be roused up out of his sleep.

Then the angel I had been talking to returned and got my attention, like waking someone from sleep.

2 Then said he unto me, What canst thou see? And I said—I have looked, and lo! a Lampstand—all of gold, with the Bowl thereof upon the top thereof, and its Seven Lamps upon it, Seven Pipes each, to the lamps which are upon the top thereof;

“What do you see?” he asked me. “I see a lampstand made of solid gold with a bowl at its top having seven lamps on it, each with seven lips.

3 and, Two Olive-trees, by it, —one upon the right hand of the bowl, and one upon the left hand thereof.

I also see olive trees, one to the right and one to the left of the bowl.”

4 Then responded I, and said unto the messenger who was speaking with me, saying, —What are these, my lord?

Then I asked the angel I was talking to, “What are these, my lord?”

5 Then answered the messenger who was speaking with me, and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these, are? And I said, No my lord.

“Don't you know what these are?” the angel replied. “No, my lord,” I responded.

6 Then responded he, and spake unto me, saying, This, is the word of Yahweh, unto Zerubbabel, saying, —Not by wealth, nor by strength, but by my spirit, saith Yahweh of hosts.

Then he told me, “This is the Lord's message to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty.

7 Who, art, thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, [brought down] to a plain! So shall he bring forth the headstone, with thundering shouts Beautiful! Beautiful! thereunto.

Even obstacles as big as mountains will be flattened before Zerubbabel. Finally he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘Blessings on it!’”

8 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:

Then the Lord gave me another message.

9 The hands of Zerubbabel, have founded this house, and, his hands, shall finish it, —So shalt thou know that, Yahweh of hosts, hath sent me unto you.

Zerubbabel with his own hands laid the foundations for this Temple, and it will be completed the same way. Then you will know the Lord Almighty has sent me.

10 For who hath despised the day of small things? Yet shall they rejoice, when they see the plummet-stone in the hand of Zerubbabel, —these seven! The eyes of Yahweh, they are—running to and fro throughout all the earth.

For who dares look down on this time of small beginnings? They will be happy when they see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand. “The seven lamps represent the eyes of the Lord which see all over the world.”

11 Then responded I, and said unto him, —What are these two olive-trees, upon the right of the lampstand, and upon the left thereof?

Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees that stand to the right and the left of the lampstand?”

12 And I responded a second time, and said unto him, —What are the two branches of the olive- trees which join the two golden tubes, which empty out of them the golden oil?

And I also asked him, “What are the two olive branches from which the golden oil pours out from through golden pipes?”

13 And he spake unto me, saying, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

“Don't you know?” the angel replied. “No, my lord,” I responded.

14 Then said he, These, are the two Anointed Ones, —who stand near the Lord of all the earth.

“These are the two who have been anointed who stand by the Lord of all the earth,” he replied.