Zechariah 4:1-6

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The Vision of the Golden Menorah

4 Then the angel who had been speaking with me returned and woke me up as if I had been asleep. ² Then he asked me, “What do you see?”

So I said, “I have been watching—and look!—there is a menorah made completely of gold with a bowl on top of it. And there are seven lights on it, along with seven feeder channels to the lamps, which are also on top of it. ³ Two olive trees are near it, one on the right side of the bowl and one on the left.”

⁴ Then I asked the angel who had been speaking with me, “Sir,^[a] what are these?”

⁵ The angel who had been speaking with me answered by asking, “You don’t know what these mean, do you?”

So I responded, “No, sir.”

The Lord’s First Charge to Zerubbabel

⁶ Then he replied to me, “This is this message from the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by valor nor by strength, but only by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.