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Zechariah’s Fifth Vision

4 And the angel who was talking with me returned, and he wakened me as one who is wakened from his sleep. ² And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and look, a lampstand all of gold,^[a] and a bowl was on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven lips on each of the lamps that are on its top. ³ And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.” ⁴ And I answered and said to the angel who was talking to me, “What are these, my lord?” ⁵ And the angel who was talking with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.” ⁶ And he answered and said to me, “This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by strength and not by power, but only by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of hosts. ⁷ ‘Who are you O great mountain? Before^[b] Zerubbabel you will become level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amid the shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’” ⁸ And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ⁹ “The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. ¹⁰ For whoever has despised the day of small things will rejoice and will see the plumb line^[c] in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

These seven are the eyes of Yahweh which are ranging throughout the whole earth.^{[d] 11} And I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?” ¹² And I replied a second time and asked him, “What are these two twigs of olive trees^[e] on the right of the lampstand and on its left?” ¹³ And he replied to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.” ¹⁴ And he said, “These are the two anointed ones^[f] standing by the Lord of the whole earth.”

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

5 I looked up again,^[g] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! ² And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”^{[h] 3} And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished^[i] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. ⁴ ‘I have sent it out,’ declares^[j] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name,^[k] and it will spend the night in that^[l] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

⁵ And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up!^[m] See what this is going out.” ⁶ And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket^[n] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity^[o] throughout all the earth. ⁷ And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.^{[p] 8} And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,^[q] and threw the lead cover on top of it.^{[r] 9} And I looked up^[s] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket^[t] between the earth and the sky.^{[u] 10} And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”^{[v] 11} And he said to me, “To build for it a house^[w] in the land of Shinar,^[x] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”

The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion

14 And I looked, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. ² And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the sound that I heard was like harpists playing on their harps. ³ And they were singing something like a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been bought from the earth.

⁴ These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity as first fruits to God and to the Lamb, ⁵ and in their mouth a lie was not found; they are blameless.

The Three Angels and Their Messages

⁶ And I saw another angel flying directly overhead^[a], having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who reside on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people, ⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water!”

⁸ And another second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”

⁹ And another third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, ¹⁰ he himself also will drink of the wine of the anger of God that has been mixed full strength in the cup of his wrath, and will be tortured with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torture went up forever and ever^[b], and those who worshiped the beast and his image did not have rest day and night, along with anyone who received^[c] the mark of his name. ¹² Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write:

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them.”

The Earth is Harvested

¹⁴ And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud was seated one like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Send out your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe!” ¹⁶ And the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven; he also had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel who had authority over the fire went out from the altar, and he called out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send out your sharp sickle and harvest the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are at their prime!” ¹⁹ And the angel swung his sickle into the earth and harvested the vine of the earth, and threw the grapes^[d] into the great winepress of the wrath of God. ²⁰ And the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood went out from the winepress up to the bridles of the horses, about one thousand six hundred stadia.^[e]

A Prayer for Deliverance from Pursuers

A maskil of David.

When he was in the cave. A prayer.^[a]