Zaccharias Propheta 4

1 Et reversus est angelus, qui loquebatur in me, et suscitavit me, quasi virum, qui suscitatur de somno suo.

Then the angel who was talking with me turned and roused me like a man roused from his sleep.

2 Et dixit ad me: Quid tu vides? Et dixi: Vidi, et ecce candelabrum aureum totum, et lampas eius super caput ipsius, et septem lucernae eius super illud: et septem infusoria lucernis, quae erant super caput eius.

He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a lampstand made entirely of gold, with a bowl on its top. It has seven lamps on it and seven lamp wicks at the top of each lamp.

3 Et duae olivae super illud: una a dextris lampadis, et una a sinistris eius.

Two olive trees are by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on the left side.”

4 Et respondi, et aio ad angelum, qui loquebatur in me, dicens: Quid sunt haec, domine mi?

So I spoke again to the angel who was talking with me. I said, “What do these things mean, my master?”

5 Et respondit angelus, qui loquebatur in me, et dixit ad me: Numquid nescis quid sunt haec? Et dixi: Non, domine mi.

The angel who was talking with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these things mean?” I said, “No, my master.”

6 Et respondit, et ait ad me, dicens: Hoc est verbum Domini ad Zorobabel, dicens: Non in exercitu, nec in robore, sed in spiritu meo, dicit Dominus exercituum.

So he said to me, “This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Yahweh of hosts.

7 Quis tu mons magne coram Zorobabel? in planum: et educet lapidem primarium, et exaequabit gratiam gratiae eius.

What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring out the top stone to shouts of 'Grace! Grace to it!'”

8 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

9 Manus Zorobabel fundaverunt domum istam, et manus eius perficient eam: et scietis quia Dominus exercituum misit me ad vos.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house and his hands will bring it to completion.” Then you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

10 Quis enim despexit dies parvos? et laetabuntur, et videbunt lapidem stanneum in manu Zorobabel. Septem isti oculi sunt Domini, qui discurrunt in universam terram.

Who has despised the day of small things? These people will rejoice and will see the plumb stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. (These seven lamps are the eyes of Yahweh that roam over the whole earth.)

11 Et respondi, et dixi ad eum: Quid sunt duae olivae istae ad dexteram candelabri, et ad sinistram eius?

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

12 Et respondi secundo, et dixi ad eum: Quid sunt duae spicae olivarum, quae sunt iuxta duo rostra aurea, in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro?

Once more I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that have golden oil pouring out of them?”

13 Et ait ad me, dicens: Numquid nescis quid sunt haec? Et dixi: Non, domine mi.

Then he said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my master.”

14 Et dixit: Isti sunt duo filii olei, qui assistunt Dominatori universae terrae.

So he said, “These are the sons of fresh olive oil who stand before the Lord of all the earth.”