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Zacharie 4
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Zacharie 4
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Le chandelier et les deux oliviers
4 L’ange qui me parlait revint et me réveilla comme un homme que l’on tire de son sommeil[a]. 2 Il me demanda : Que vois-tu ?
Je répondis : Je vois un chandelier tout en or muni, à la partie supérieure, d’un réservoir. Il est surmonté de sept lampes et il y a sept conduits pour les lampes. 3 Deux oliviers surplombent ce chandelier, l’un à la droite du réservoir, et l’autre à sa gauche[b].
4 Reprenant la parole, je questionnai l’ange qui s’entretenait avec moi : Que signifient ces choses, mon Seigneur ?
5 Il me dit : Ne sais-tu pas ce que cela représente ?
– Non, mon Seigneur, lui répondis-je.
6 Il reprit et me dit : Voici le message que l’Eternel adresse à Zorobabel[c] :
Cette œuvre, vous ne l’accomplirez ╵ni par votre bravoure ╵ni par la force,
mais par mon Esprit,
le Seigneur des armées célestes le déclare.
7 Et qu’es-tu, toi, grande montagne[d] ?
Devant Zorobabel, ╵tu seras transformée en plaine.
Il extraira de toi ╵la pierre principale
au milieu des acclamations : ╵« Dieu fasse grâce ! ╵Dieu fasse grâce pour elle[e] ! »
8 L’Eternel m’adressa encore la parole en ces termes :
9 Zorobabel a posé de ses mains les fondations de ce temple[f] et il en achèvera lui-même la reconstruction[g]. Alors vous saurez que le Seigneur des armées célestes m’a envoyé vers vous. 10 Qui donc méprisait le temps des petits commencements ? Ils auraient plutôt dû se réjouir en voyant la pierre choisie dans la main de Zorobabel. Quant à ces sept, ce sont les yeux de l’Eternel qui parcourent toute la terre.
11 Je repris alors et je lui demandai : Que représentent ces deux oliviers à la droite et à la gauche du chandelier ?
12 Puis je repris une seconde fois la parole et je lui demandai : Que représentent ces deux branches d’olivier qui se trouvent à côté des deux conduits en or d’où découle l’huile dorée ?
13 Il me répondit en disant : Ne sais-tu pas ce qu’ils représentent ?
– Non, mon Seigneur, lui répondis-je.
14 Alors il m’expliqua : Ce sont les deux hommes qui ont reçu l’onction et qui se tiennent au service du Seigneur de toute la terre.
Footnotes
- 4.1 Pour les v. 1-3, voir Ap 11.3-4.
- 4.3 Le v. 14 indique que ces deux oliviers sont les deux hommes consacrés par l’onction, Josué et Zorobabel, représentants de l’office sacerdotal et de l’office royal (voir 6.13).
- 4.6 Lointain descendant de David (1 Ch 3.17-19).
- 4.7 Sans doute la montagne des décombres qui occupaient l’emplacement du Temple et qu’il fallait d’abord déblayer pour reconstruire le sanctuaire sur les anciennes fondations. Elle figure l’ensemble des obstacles à la reconstruction du Temple.
- 4.7 Dans le Proche-Orient ancien, le roi prenait une pierre des ruines d’un ancien sanctuaire pour en faire la pierre d’angle d’un nouveau sanctuaire, au cours d’une cérémonie populaire.
- 4.9 En 537-536 av. J.-C. (Esd 3.8-11 ; 5.16).
- 4.9 En 516 av. J.-C. (Esd 6.14-16).
Zechariah 4
New International Version
Zechariah 4
New International Version
The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees
4 Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke(A) me up, like someone awakened from sleep.(B) 2 He asked me, “What do you see?”(C)
I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand(D) with a bowl at the top and seven lamps(E) on it, with seven channels to the lamps. 3 Also there are two olive trees(F) by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
4 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
5 He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I replied.(G)
6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:(H) ‘Not(I) by might nor by power,(J) but by my Spirit,’(K) says the Lord Almighty.
7 “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground.(L) Then he will bring out the capstone(M) to shouts(N) of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”
8 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation(O) of this temple; his hands will also complete it.(P) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me(Q) to you.
10 “Who dares despise the day(R) of small things,(S) since the seven eyes(T) of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone[a] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”(U)
11 Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees(V) on the right and the left of the lampstand?”
12 Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”
13 He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I said.
14 So he said, “These are the two who are anointed(W) to[b] serve the Lord of all the earth.”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 4:10 Or the plumb line
- Zechariah 4:14 Or two who bring oil and
ﺯﻛﺮﻳﺎ 4
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ﺯﻛﺮﻳﺎ 4
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المَنَارَةُ وشَجَرتَا الزَّيْتُون
4 وَعَادَ المَلَاكُ الَّذِي كَانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ مَعِي وَأيقَظَنِي، كَمَا يُوقَظُ النَائِمُ. 2 وَقَالَ لِي: «مَاذَا تَرَى؟»
فَقُلْتُ: «أرَى مَنَارَةً مَسْبُوكَةً مِنَ الذَّهَبِ. وَأرَى إنَاءً فَوْقَهَا. وَلِلمَنَارَةِ سَبْعَةُ سُرُجٍ. وَيَخْرُجُ أُنبُوبٌ مِنْ كُلِّ سِرَاجٍ مِنَ السُّرُجِ الَّتِي فِي أعْلَى المَنَارَةِ. 3 وَرأيتُ شَجَرَتَي زَيْتُونٍ، وَاحِدَةً عَنْ يَمِينِ الإنَاءِ، وَوَاحِدَةً عَنْ يَسَارِهِ. 4 فَقُلْتُ لِلمَلَاكِ الَّذِي كَانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ مَعِي: ‹يَا سَيِّدُ، مَا هَذِهِ؟›
5 «فَأجَابَ المَلَاكُ الَّذِي كَانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ مَعِي: ‹ألَا تَعْرِفُ مَا هَذِهِ؟›
«فَقُلْتُ: ‹لَا يَا سَيِّدِي.›
6 «فَقَالَ المَلَاكُ: ‹هَذِهِ هِيَ رِسَالَةُ اللهِ إلَى زَرُبَّابِلَ: لَا بِالقُوَّةِ وَلَا بِالقُدْرَةِ، بَلْ بِرُوحِي، يَقُولُ اللهُ القَدِيرُ. 7 مَا أنْتَ أيُّهَا الجَبَلُ العَظِيمُ؟ أمَامَ زَرُبَّابِلَ سَتَصِيرُ سَهلًا. سَيُخرَجُ الحَجَرُ الأعْلَى فِي الهَيْكَلِ عَلَى صَوْتِ الهُتَافِ: مَرحَى! مَرحَى!›»
8 ثُمَّ تَلَقَّيتُ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةَ مِنَ اللهِ: 9 «يَدَا زَرُبَّابِلَ وَضَعَتَا أسَاسَ هَذَا الهَيْكَلِ، وَيَدَاهُ سَتُكمِلَانِهِ. وَحِينَ يَحْدُثُ هَذَا سَتَعْرِفُ أنَّ اللهَ القَدِيرَ أرْسَلَنِي إلَيكُمْ. 10 لَنْ يَسْتَهينَ أحَدٌ بِالبِدَايَاتِ الصَّغِيرَةِ، بَلْ سَيَفْرَحُ الجَمِيعُ إذْ يَرَوْنَ خَيطَ القِيَاسِ[a] فِي يَدِ زَرُبَّابِلَ. أمَّا هَذِهِ السُّرُجُ السَّبْعَةُ، فَهِيَ عُيُونُ اللهِ الَّتِي تَجُولُ فِي كُلِّ الأرْضِ.»
11 ثُمَّ سَألْتُ المَلَاكَ: «وَمَا شَجَرَتَا الزَّيْتُونِ اللَّتَانِ عَنْ يَمِينِ المَنَارَةِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهَا؟ 12 وَمَا غُصنَا الزَّيْتُونِ اللَّذَانِ يَقْطُرَانِ زَيْتًا مِنْ خِلَالِ أنَابِيبِ الذَّهَبِ؟»
13 فَقَالَ لِي: «ألَا تَعْرِفُ مَا هَذِهِ؟»
فَقُلْتُ: «لَا يَا سَيِّدِي.»
14 فَقَالَ: «هَذَانِ الغُصْنَانِ هُمَا الرَّجُلَانِ المَمْسُوحَانِ[b] الوَاقِفَانِ أمَامَ رَبِّ الأرْضِ كُلِّهَا.»
Zechariah 4
King James Version
Zechariah 4
King James Version
4 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
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