Zechariah 4
New King James Version

Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees

4 Now^(A)the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me,^(B)as 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 thereis^(C)a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it,^(D)and on thestandseven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.³^(E)Two olive treesareby 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, “Whatarethese, 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:

“Thisisthe word of theLordto^(F)Zerubbabel:
^(G)‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
Says theLordof hosts.
⁷‘Whoareyou,^(H)O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabelyou shall becomea plain!
And he shall bring forth^(I)the capstone
^(J)With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”

⁸Moreover the word of theLordcame to me, saying:

⁹“The hands of Zerubbabel
^(K)Have laid the foundation of this^[a]temple;
His hands^(L)shall also finishit.
Then^(M)you will know
That the^(N)Lordof hosts has sent Me to you.
¹⁰For who has despised the day of^(O)small things?
For these seven rejoice to see
The^[b]plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
^(P)They are the eyes of theLord,
Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”

¹¹Then I answered and said to him, “Whatarethese^(Q)two olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?”¹²And I further answered and said to him, “Whatare thesetwo olive branches thatdrip^[c]into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the goldenoildrains?”

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

And I said, “No, my lord.”

¹⁴So he said,^(R)“Thesearethe two^[d]anointed ones,^(S)who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”