Zechariah 4:1-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

The Lord’s House Will Be Rebuilt

4 The angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me up as one might wake up someone who is sleeping. ² He asked me, “What do you see?”

I answered, “I see a solid gold lamp stand with a bowl on top and seven lamps on it. There are seven spouts for each lamp that is on top of it. ³ There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴ I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What do these things mean, sir?”

⁵ Then the angel asked me, “Don’t you know what they mean?”

“No, sir,” I answered.

⁶ Then he replied, “This is the word the Lord spoke to Zerubbabel: You won’t ⌞succeed⌟ by might or by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Armies. ⁷ What a high mountain you are! In front of Zerubbabel you will become a plain. He will bring out the topmost stone with shouts of ‘Blessings, blessings on it!’ ”