Zechariah 4

1The angel who spoke with me returned and roused me, like a man awakened from his sleep.

2He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see—and look—a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on top of it and its seven lamps on it, seven pipes to each of the seven lamps on its top."

3and two olive trees by it, one to the right of the bowl and one to its left.

4I answered and said to the angel speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"

5The angel speaking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."

6He answered and said to me, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of hosts."

7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring out the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"

8Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

9Zerubbabel's hands have founded this house, and his hands will finish it; you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

10For who scorns the day of little things? These seven will rejoice and see the plummet in Zerubbabel's hand; they are the eyes of Yahweh ranging through the whole earth.

11Then I answered and said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?"

12I answered a second time and said to him, "What are the two olive branches beside the two golden pipes that pour golden oil out from themselves?"

13He said to me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."

14He said, "These are the two sons of the oil who stand by the Lord of all the earth."