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Zechariah 4
Fifth vision: the lamp-stand and the olive trees
1 The angel who was talking to me came back and roused me as a man is roused from his sleep.
2 And he asked me, ‘What can you see?’ I answered, ‘As I look, this is what I see: there is a lamp-stand entirely of gold with a bowl at the top of it; seven lamps are on the lamp-stand, and seven lips for the lamps on it.
3 By it are two olive trees, one to the right of it and one to the left.’
4 Speaking again, I said to the angel who was talking to me, ‘What do those things mean, my lord?’
5 The angel who was talking to me replied, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ I said, ‘No, my lord’.
4:10b ‘These seven are the eyes of Yahweh; they cover the whole world’.
11 In reply to this I asked him, ‘What is the meaning of these two olive trees, to the right
and to the left of the lamp-stand?’
12 (Speaking again, I asked him, ‘What is the meaning of the two olive branches pouring the oil through the two golden pipes?’)
13 He replied, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ I said, ‘No, my lord’.
14 He said, ‘These are the two anointed ones who stand before the Lord of the whole world.[*a]
4:6b ‘This is the word of Yahweh with regard to Zerubbabel, “Not by might and not by power, but by my spirit, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
7 “What are you, you great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, be a plain! He will pull out the keystone to shouts of: Blessings on it, blessings on it!”‘
8 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,
9 ‘The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this Temple; his hands will finish it. (And you will learn that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me to you.)